Scott Speedman Quotes
You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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Stable growth ensures employment.
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The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
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When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
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Honest always sells. Always has, always will.
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The Islanders and their owner, Garth Snow, were very generous with me and let me do some cool stuff inside the organization.
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You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
