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James McAvoy Quotes

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sleep Bed Now Nails Well Really

I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.

Work Morning Die Alive Sometimes Up

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

Book Think Choose Dead More Out

I like Oprah. I could sit around and make vision boards all day, but I wouldn't actually get anything done if I were to concentrate on my feelings rather than doing.

Vision Day Doing Feelings Done Sit

I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

Life Hope My Life Gospel Owe

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

Robert C. Merton

People College Flying Stock Market

There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good - for the self, for those we love, for 'our neighbor,' for our earth.

Life Love Good Achievement Self

I told them I would work to strengthen and secure Medicare for generations to come, and I told them I would fight for a new prescription drug benefit under Medicare.

Work Fight New Generations Come

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

Love Yourself Me Writing You More

I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.

Change Character Time Responsibility

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

Parents Friends Relationships What If

The biggest direct influence on my career is Ben Edlund, who gave me my first real professional break and, through his friendship and example, turned me into a writer and a more critical thinker in general.

Christopher McCulloch

Friendship Me Influence Career First

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

People Want Out Found Figure

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