Scott Spencer Quotes
The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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I've got tons more stuff to do.
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What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
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Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.
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It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.
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When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.
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Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
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Every time you're on stage, you look out at a packed house, people all the way up to the top, people having a blast, everybody forgetting about the world for a couple hours. That's a special thing.
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Aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to work at a startup for a couple of years first, to understand what's involved. But often, each company's approach to success is very narrow. So my advice is, 'Just do it.'
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.
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The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.
