Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott (A. O. Scott) Quotes

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott

• Family
• Drama
• Ambition
• Honesty
• Loyalty

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• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Love
  • Relate

• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • High
  • Words
  • Actions

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Future
  • You
  • Employer

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Kids
  • American
  • Father

• We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • People
  • Power
  • Faith

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

  

  Yuna
  • Me
  • Criticism
  • Down

• I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Health

• I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Model
  • Musicians

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

  

  Jacques Monod
  • Alone
  • Universe
  • Destiny

• Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

  

  Martin Luther
  • False
  • Authors
  • Doctrines

• My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Work
  • Character
  • Mentor

• Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Good
  • God
  • Together

• A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Family
  • Drama
  • Ambition