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 praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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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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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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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've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.
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For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.
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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.
