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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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 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?
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it's just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.
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There's gonna be a time when I'm way curvier, and that'll be sexy too. What defines sexy is not someone's weight. Personally I like curves. I wanna look good for me. I wanna feel good.
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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
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Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game.
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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.
