Asa Butterfield Quotes
I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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The idea that we were designed by our past was the principal insight of Charles Darwin. He was the first to realize that you can abandon divine creation of species without abandoning the argument from design.
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There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other side of me that's just a dirty animal. If I don't let that out, I go nuts.
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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.
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I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.
