William Scott Quotes
You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
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It doesn't matter to me if someone is a Republican or a Democrat, I'm going to be the governor for all Marylanders.
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The Russians have been waging wars with these separatists since the 19th century, but for obvious reasons, Chechen separatist terrorism tends to be carried out by Chechens.
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Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.
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I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally.
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You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.
