Scott Thompson Quotes
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.
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His decision to study the law had got him as far as hiring Twelve Angry Men from a video shop.
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I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
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In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
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I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.
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And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.
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Comedy is actually very macho driven.
