James Victor Scott (Jimmy Scott) Quotes
I'm a cereal lover. I could eat it in the morning, in the evening, and at night - I love Cheerios.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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I would like to have my gun for protection.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
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Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
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There's always a knee-jerk reaction in our business to analyze and determine why something didn't work.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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I'm a cereal lover. I could eat it in the morning, in the evening, and at night - I love Cheerios.
