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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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'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.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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'She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.'
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It was like two drunks in a back alley throwing punches at each other.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.
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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.
