Scoot McNairy Quotes
It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Like all power seekers, Pae was amazingly shortsighted. There was a trivial, abortive quality to his mind, it lacked depth, affect, imagination. It was, in fact, a primitive instrument.
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It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature - that is the true carnival!
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Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
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When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.
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When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!
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It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.
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I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.
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It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.
