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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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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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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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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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.
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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.
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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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So God stepped over to the edge of the worldAnd He spat out the seven seas;He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed;He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled;And the waters above the earth came down,The cooling waters came down.
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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To become indignant at people's conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
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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?'
