Scott Spencer Quotes
All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.
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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
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All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.
