Scoot McNairy Quotes

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

Scoot McNairy

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• There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Moral

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Peace

• I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Pain
  • Sick
  • Healthy

• This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Family
  • Talk
  • Through

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Same

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Fear
  • Mean
  • Worry

• My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Line

• We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Work
  • Technology

• When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Work
  • You
  • Opportunities

• In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thing

• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Experience
  • Very
  • Vices

• At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friend

• A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Start

• A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Commitment

• If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Business
  • Dad
  • Lazy

• I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

  

  Scoot McNairy
  • Independent
  • Films