John Scott (John Howard Scott) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Scott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hamish Bowles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Bernstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dag Hammarskjold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yoko Ono 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				AJ McLean 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. L. Doctorow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Floyd Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vidya Balan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry the Cable Guy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Octavia Spencer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Botham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wallace Shawn