John Scott (John Howard Scott) Quotes
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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I don't believe in God.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I've got to do some creative thinking about it, ... We do a lot of stuff to emphasize turnovers and taking the ball away in practice. I probably need to think long and hard about it myself.
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And I wanted to do a movie Moonrise Kingdom about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.
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Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
