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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation."
"If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency."
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
"I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme."
"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2."
"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."
"We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out."
"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive."
"I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same."
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
"If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you."
"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."
"If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor."
"If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her."
"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12."
"I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning."
"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
"The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for."
"If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!"
"The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me."
"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."
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