Asa Butterfield Quotes
I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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Music is a language.
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There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
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I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.
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Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.
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I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.
