M.M. Scott Quotes

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.

I go where the lizards tell me.

I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

One of the greatest blessings we can offer to the world is the power of a Christ-centered home where the gospel is taught, covenants are kept, and love abounds.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain a "there" that will look better to you than your present "here."

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.

It feels good to be winded, having trouble breathing, chest hurts [during a workout]... I'm alive.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.

A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because were from North England.

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

Your peace of mind, your assurance of answers to vexing problems, your ultimate joy depend upon your trust in Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.