Ken Stott Quotes

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

Ken Stott

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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Breakfast
  • Short
  • Lunch

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • God
  • Words

• People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Manners
  • Even

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Art
  • True

• IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Age
  • Restaurant

• My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • World
  • Different
  • Connection

• It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Work
  • Book

• I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Family
  • Want
  • Religious

• There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Action

• If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

  

  John Barry
  • Success

• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Help
  • Science
  • Powerful

• Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Childhood

• No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Music
  • Words
  • Dark