Andrew Scott Quotes
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
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As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
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With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
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International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.
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The best thing I probably do is - I'll say I'm a pretty darn good parent. I got good kids.
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The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.
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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
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Widowed wife and wedded maid.
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Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.
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Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is.
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As the chart of the unknown becomes filled in, judgment of the most profitable course to follow changes. Mysterious inlets may prove dead ends or may open into vast seas.
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This is the key that opens us up to negotiate.
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'Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.'
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I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.
