Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.
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I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
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The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
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You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?
