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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in."
"But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them."
"I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today."
"If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job."
"I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily."
"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."
"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
"Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality."
"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane."
"Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that."
"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
"Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit."
"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
"Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else."
"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy."
"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."
"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."
"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
"I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work."
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
"In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals."
"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
"Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed."
"Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable."
"Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me."
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