Campbell Scott Quotes
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.
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I’m on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I’m totally spiritual - I’m completely opposite of what everyone thinks I am right now.
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I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.
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The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
