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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You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.
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'I've heard assorted rhapsodies about humankind going to the stars, of course. Who hasn't? Each of them founders on the practical problems.' 'The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.'
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You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
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I believe you need films like that - feel-good, breezy films that families can watch.
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
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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.
