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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom."
"I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him."
"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."
"I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly."
"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."
"The first job of a writer is to be honest."
"You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school."
"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
"The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence."
"Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine."
"Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ."
"There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting."
"At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed."
"Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can."
"The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."
"No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural."
"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."
"It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances."
"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."
"But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything."
"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."
"Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it."
"I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds."
"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."
"I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something."
"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."
"Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had."
"This total surrender to 'the love of Christ' is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God's holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness."
"The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs."
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