Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
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I don't get offered many comedies.
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I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.
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Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.
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The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
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Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.
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We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
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Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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I've lived a thousand lives just by reading a book.
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A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.
