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.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Ed Rollins
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Victor Vasarely
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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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
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• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
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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
  • Always
  • Questions
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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
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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.

  

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

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • 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?'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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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.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Black
  • Simple
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• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  

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

  

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

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• If it's stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You've planned, you've trained, you've done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that's facing you. And then after that, there's nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Done
  • Power
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• Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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  • Business
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• Besides what I do, I love fishing; I love bringing my children to the forest, getting outdoors in nature. Get outside, people! Stop looking at screens.

  

  Keith Barry
  • People
  • Children
  • Nature

• I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
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  • Problem

• The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • War
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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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