Sean William Scott Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
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Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.
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Kids are anarchy writ large.
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Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
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What I've found is there is no barometer that allows you to chart when you're oversaturating a desire. You're left really trying to respond on a gut level, because by the time you might do research, it's already too late. There's also a healthy tension between what are very sound business objectives and a very amorphous desire to preserve what's special.
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My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.
