Adam Scott Quotes
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
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The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
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I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
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My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
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Malebranche dirait qu’il n’y a plus une âme: Nous pensons humblement qu’il reste encor des cœurs.
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Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
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I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.
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'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.
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If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?
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It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
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Being an actor is just kind of embarrassing.
