Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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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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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.
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I have a rude thought every three seconds!
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I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
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Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.
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I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.
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Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
