A. O. Scott Quotes

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...

You are only as big as your experiences.

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

DDP, when I look at you, I see white trash! When I look at the people in the crowd, I see white trash. So maybe you are the people's champion!

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week.

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Bad times don't last, bad guys do.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.