Scott Derrickson Quotes
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
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How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.
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Beauty is a whore.
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'What is the work of a Master?' said a solemn-faced visitor. 'To teach people to laugh,' said the Master gravely.
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Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
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Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead – or behind – everybody else's taste. And I'm not really convinced I'd like it to change. There's something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It's the wild-dog genre.
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I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
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As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
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As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
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If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.
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Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.
