A. O. Scott Quotes
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.
The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.
Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.
There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.
Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.
Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.
Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.
I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.
Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.
When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.
Everyday I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people that touch us.
I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.
If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.
Marketing is not about your agency winning awards. It's about your organization winning business.
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.
Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.
I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.
Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.
The best brands never start out with the intent of building a great brand. They focus on building a great – and profitable – product or service and an organization that can sustain it.
Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.
But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.
Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.
Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.
