Scott Speedman Quotes

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

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• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Life
  • Team
  • Respect

• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Going
  • Been
  • Where

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Understanding
  • Always

• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Boy
  • Down
  • Fish

• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Game
  • Change
  • Emotions

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Easy

• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Men
  • Think
  • Faithful

• Netflix is something I watch.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Something
  • Watch
  • Netflix

• The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Beginning
  • Lies
  • End

• Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • History
  • Name
  • Evidence

• I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Kind

• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Community

• Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Congress
  • Americans
  • Washington

• Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Teacher
  • California
  • Taxes

• I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Strange
  • Miss
  • Times Square

• Hair-wise, the move for me is to not wash it. I try to only wash it when I have to or for a shoot or something.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Hair
  • Wise

• You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • House
  • Night
  • Free

• I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • Place
  • California
  • Strange