N. Scott Momaday Quotes
Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.
Quotes to Explore
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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Tone matters more than words.
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
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Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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I've already fallen in love with 20 guys since I've been here. The accents sound so intelligent. I love the way the guys are so classy and wear trench coats.
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
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Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.
