James Victor Scott (Jimmy Scott) Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Zack Snyder -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
Lance Reddick -
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
Gary Wolf -
I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
Imelda May -
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
Natalie Imbruglia -
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
Sam Smith -
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
Van Morrison -
Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
Pat Brown -
A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams -
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
Tabitha King -
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop -
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West -
Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
Gautam Adani -
I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
Mackenzie Crook
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Pay is about the power we forfeit to get the power of pay. For example, we forfeit power when we work for others, not ourselves, but we get the power of the paycheck when we do that.
Warren Farrell -
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
John Muir -
Che ben pigliar nel crin la buona sorteCarlo sapea, quando volgea la faccia.
Ludovico Ariosto -
I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.
Neville Marriner -
But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.
John Ruskin -
I love show business. It's my life, honey, and I try to enjoy it.
James Victor Scott