Adam Scott Quotes

Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • You
  • Proud
  • Woman

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

  

  Banks
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Crazy

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Sports
  • Car
  • Driving

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Eye

• 'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Fans
  • Twilight
  • Got

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Taken
  • Math
  • Been

• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Development
  • Advertising

• There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • World
  • Winter
  • Humble

• I have my own marketing company, Always Civil, where I help artists create their online identity. I have worked with Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Mary J. Blige, Pusha T - the list goes on.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Help
  • Identity
  • Marketing

• Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Plant
  • Draws
  • Surround

• I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Up
  • Time
  • End

• At 500, our policy is 12 weeks of fully paid leave for all parents in the U.S. Parents can choose to take this leave consecutively or spread it out through the first 12 months after birth.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Parents

• Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.

  

  Adam Scott
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