Scott Glenn Quotes
I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.
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I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.
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Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
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You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business - along with the short memory of our readers.
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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
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I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.
