Scoot McNairy Quotes
My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And, that's sort of a virtue and a wonderful thing to be able to experience. It's so much less work.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Any job is wonderful.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.
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I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
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Decadence is wonderful.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.
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If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
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Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.
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Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
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Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
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My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And, that's sort of a virtue and a wonderful thing to be able to experience. It's so much less work.
