James Victor Scott (Jimmy Scott) Quotes
I've taken regular gigs, I've worked in grocery stores, worked as a dishwasher, a porter in different places, all for survival. I don't feel bad about doing it. I wished I could have done better. And still do.
Quotes to Explore
-
For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
-
I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
-
It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
-
I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
-
To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
-
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
-
I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
-
Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
-
The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
-
I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
-
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
-
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
-
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
-
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
-
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
-
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
-
A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
-
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
-
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
-
There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.
-
I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.
-
My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term 'junk dealer') in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.
-
I loved 'Friday Night Lights' because it was totally committed to every facet of its storytelling. Incredible actors, story lines that weren't easy or predictable. It made me laugh, and it broke my heart over and over again.
-
I've taken regular gigs, I've worked in grocery stores, worked as a dishwasher, a porter in different places, all for survival. I don't feel bad about doing it. I wished I could have done better. And still do.
