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.M. Scott Peck
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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.
Kate Bernheimer -
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust -
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.
D'Angelo -
An actor has to embody a role.
Taylor Hackford -
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.
Mads Mikkelsen -
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern
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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.
Patrick Ness -
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
Daniel Barenboim -
Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
Rachel Sklar -
I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
Gary David Goldberg -
I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
Harold Robbins
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I will know him by his eyes.
Taylor Caldwell -
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
Aaron Eckhart -
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
Yossi Vardi -
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra -
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
Walter Jon Williams -
'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
Caitlin Rose
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The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.
Jenny Scheinman -
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.
Ellen Key -
The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.
Annette Funicello -
Henry told me he is often the life of the party, as if he didn't already know that to be the life of the party is the most sad and pathetic of all things to be.
Binnie Kirshenbaum -
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
Gabriel Iglesias -
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.
M. Scott Peck