Andrew Scott Quotes
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.
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It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
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Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
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We are in need of new concepts... which reorient our way of looking at the world to encompass present and future changes. I believe in the predominant framework for modern corporation... the corporation is viewed as a resource-conversion entity, taking raw material and converting tme into products, with dollars measuring the transaction. Returns are provided to owners in the form of dividends or capital appreciation in the marketplace.
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People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
