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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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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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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I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.
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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 find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
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A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.
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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.
