Scott Snyder Quotes
I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.
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A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.
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There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.
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I look at all good things with a bit of a dark lens, I suppose, especially with something like love.
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Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.
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I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?
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One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.
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I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.
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I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.
