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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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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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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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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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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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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All these guys are just like me. They were a rookie at one time in their life. They treat me like I'm one of the guys. I look at Greg Maddux and saw him sitting over there and said, 'Man, that's Greg Maddux. That guy is going to be in the Hall of Fame.' Now I sit there and talk to him like a teammate. It's a reality check, and it's a great feeling at the same time.
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As part of my job, I got malaria really badly and was put in intensive care, and I had a hallucination because they give you this cocktail of drugs to fix you so you don't die, and I had this hallucination that I was at the Oscars and I won and I was a really good actress, and it was so real that when I came out of the hospital, I started saying to people I'm going to become an actress.
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
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Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function that Europe shouldn't underestimate.
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The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
