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Casey Affleck Quotes

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 12, 1975

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Kid Leave Up Where Cambridge Town

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.

Life People Me Window Writing Loved

Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.

Science Routine More Science Fiction

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

Vintage Sexy You Know Kind Old

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

Heart Man Believe White Know Still

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Stephen Leacock

People Information Conversation Wit

If you look at my Instagram, girls are just beating down my door for tips or a job or mentorship. I can't hire every single one of them. My story is one thing that gives them hope. It's an unconventional story with anecdotes, commonsense advice and a big dose of permission to figure things out for yourself.

Hope Job Yourself Door Story Advice

Meryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be.

You Awesome Imagine Would Exactly

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

World Intellectual Independent Press

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Yourself Dare Risk Pretending About

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

Friendship Water Rock Share Pond

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

Hope Memory Becoming Lives

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