Dougray Scott Quotes

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

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• He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Two
  • Editors
  • Review

• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Country
  • Corruption
  • Morals

• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Job
  • Best
  • Thought

• Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Very
  • Little

• First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Important
  • Trying

• I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Believe
  • War
  • Hate

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Happy
  • Parents

• Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Memories
  • Lies

• I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Age
  • Law
  • Beauty

• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Death
  • Silent
  • Silver

• In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Time
  • Important
  • Home

• What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Different
  • Live
  • Marriage

• In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wise
  • Questions
  • Answer

• One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Truth

• You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.

  

  Maimonides
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Opinion

• On one side was the pain of the victims of the earthquake, and on the other the pain of the victims of the riots. In decisively confronting this great turmoil, I had to single-mindedly focus all the strength given to me by the almighty, on the task of peace, justice and rehabilitation; burying the pain and agony I was personally wracked with.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Single

• I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Country

• There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Night
  • Joy
  • Dark

• There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. … It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.

  

  Alexander Shulgin
  • Feeling
  • Wait
  • Belong

• Music's something that I really wasn't pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.

  

  Dizzee Rascal
  • Music
  • Push
  • Chose

• It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

  

  Dougray Scott