M. Scott Peck Quotes
I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing.
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I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.
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We're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.
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Willow, things feel more uncertain than ever now," He said finally. "But I love you. For as long as I live - if that's fifty years from now, or just next week - I'll love you.
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I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.
