Asa Butterfield Quotes

I do have people looking up to me, which is still kind of weird to me. 'I'm like, 'Why? What have I done?'

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  Yasser Arafat
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• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

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• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

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• It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.

  

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• Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

  

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• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

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• From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

  

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• We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

  

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• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

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• What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

  

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• It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

  

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• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  

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• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

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• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

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• It's funny, one of the reasons why I never wear my glasses any more is that, when I was younger, a guy once said that he liked me until he found out that I wear glasses.

  

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• The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

  

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• So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

  

  Roberta Flack
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• I do have people looking up to me, which is still kind of weird to me. 'I'm like, 'Why? What have I done?'

  

  Asa Butterfield
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