James McAvoy Quotes

I'm having the life that I kind of hoped I might have one time, you know? I do feel like I have a place here. And, at least, I deserve it, as much as anybody else, hopefully.

James McAvoy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: April 21, 1979

Topics

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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

Jim Webb

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Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

John Lanchester

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If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.

Jeff Lindsay

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I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Amy Chua

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I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives.

Solange Knowles

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At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens.

Michel Faber

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Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

Debra Granik

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I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

Christine Quinn

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Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Alison Gopnik

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It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him.

Peter Falk

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I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

Tyler Perry

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Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

Rickie Lee Jones

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