Mike Scully Quotes
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
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You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
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I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.
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Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.
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I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.
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I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.
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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
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The answer is the Savior who is the source and author of peace.
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The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
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Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
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Everyone knows that the Arab peoples want prosperity, freedom and democracy every bit as much as anyone in Europe or America.
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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
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Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
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I did hidden-camera shows. I've been around the block a few times.
