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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If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.
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Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...
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I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.
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L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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?'
