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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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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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Chaka Fattah
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I don't get offered many comedies.
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Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.
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If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time.
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Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.
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I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.
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I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.
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Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
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Acting was always something deep down I knew I wanted to do. It wasn't, like, a normal profession to want to pursue, and I knew that.
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I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things.
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I think a good story can do as much as a novel; not the exact same thing, of course, but just as much artistically. They're different beasts, but to tackle an expansive country like the United States, you're either going to write a big novel, or go in to various points on the map and write stories or poems.
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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.
