Asa Butterfield Quotes
I don't really like scary movies. I mean, I didn't as a kid, but I think I got a bit better now. I've been easing myself into it, starting off with the less spooky ones.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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I don't really like scary movies. I mean, I didn't as a kid, but I think I got a bit better now. I've been easing myself into it, starting off with the less spooky ones.
