Scott Speedman Quotes
I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
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There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.
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I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
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I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why. He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you.
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If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.
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Happiness is a state of mind.
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To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again.
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I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.
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I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.
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The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
