Ken Stott Quotes
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.Ken Stott
Quotes to Explore
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin -
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
Irvin Kershner -
'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
Patina Miller -
Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
Patrick Lencioni -
I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
J. R. Martinez -
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
B. F. Skinner
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
Camilla Lackberg -
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
Jackie Robinson -
Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
Karan Mahajan -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
Sam Shepard
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
Tali Lennox -
I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
Rachel Platten -
My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
Harold E. Varmus -
I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
Wayne Rogers -
I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
Fat Joe -
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
Laura Carmichael
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What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?
Orson Scott Card -
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
R. D. Laing -
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.
Queen Latifah -
You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
Jesse Ventura -
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
Seneca the Younger -
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
Ken Stott