Adam Scott Quotes
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
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Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Choose the positive. - You have choice - you are master of your attitude - choose the POSITIVE, the CONSTRUCTIVE. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
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The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
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One guy wins and one guy loses, but it's not entirely up to him. Our sport is so crazy that on any given Sunday, anybody can win. You can run the same race over and over five times, and you'll probably get five different winners. It's wild.
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I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.
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As a seven-year-old, I had definite opinions on Ronald Reagan.
