"The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

James McAvoy

#Fate Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.”
“That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?”

Source : "Gawk, don't talk" by James Silver, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2006.
“After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)”

Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com
“I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.”

Source : Stephen Greenblatt (2013). “Hamlet in Purgatory”, p.4, Princeton University Press
“We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.”

Source : "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.
“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
“I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.”
“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.”

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