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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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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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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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.
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I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.
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College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
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School was horrific for me, constantly an outcast for being a geek.
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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.
