Scott Spencer Quotes
A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
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One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
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What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.
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Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll cry. Life never tells us, the when's or why's. When you've got friends, to wish you well. You'll find your point when. You will exhale.
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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
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Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
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Changing people's habits is very expensive.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Fires have broken out everywhere, ... We just have to watch them. Our trucks can't reach them.
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Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.
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A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!
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I did think about giving up smoking, but I decided not to, because I'm not a quitter. And I know that every cigarette I smoke takes five minutes off my life, but I also know it takes ten minutes to smoke it. That's a clear five-minute net gain, I reckon.
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A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.
