Scott Spencer Quotes
Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
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Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
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She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge...
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There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
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Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.
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That's the great thing about 'Corrie': it is an ensemble cast, and it didn't rest on one person's shoulders by any means.
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'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.
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We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.
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When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.
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Who told you I was a musician?
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We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.
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I don't know if I've got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is annoying and frustrating - it's kinda like torture.
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Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.
