Scratches Quotes - Page 10

• It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

  John Cleese

  Blue, Trying, Difficult

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2015.

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• We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Years, Freedom Of Speech

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Understanding, Said, Humans

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Views, Blood

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• Man
  is a bird full of mud,
  I say aloud.
  And death looks on with a casual eye
  and scratches his anus.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Men, Bird

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with all the sonorities of phrase and summits of thought; and the other who digs and scratches for truth all he can, who is as interested in the little facts as the big ones, who would like to make you feel materially the things he reproduces.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Taken, Character

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• Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.

  Mason Cooley

  Home, I Can

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• If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Writing, Creation, Screenplays

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• Getting ready: the show girl scratches her breast and shakes out her feathers.

  Mason Cooley

  Girl, Breasts, Shows

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• What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

  Camille Paglia

  Loss, Skins, Disaster

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Book, Kind, Knows

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• Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.

  William Friedkin

  Running, Thinking, Media

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Says No to The Exorcist in 3D". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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• If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or the lighting etc. but it really all depends on the project. Some films benefit from their spontaneity.

  Roger Deakins

  Hands, Creating, Directors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• [Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.

  Zack Snyder

  Real, Writing, Different

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I was never into hanging out on the Sunset Strip. When it came to Guns N' Roses and the scene that was going on then, that was something we pretty much hated. That was what we had to scratch and claw through, and as soon as we got established enough to leave, we never went back.

  Slash

  Sunset, Gun, Rose

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, music.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."

  Pat Benatar

  Attitude, Kids, Like You

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.

  Brandi Carlile

  Block, Stress, Artist

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be‘". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.

  Chet Raymo

  Spring, Sea, Effort

  Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.59, Cowley Publications

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• Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.

  George Carlin

  Cutting, Thinking, Looks

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.

  Julius Evola

  Personality, Way, Faces

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• According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.

  Josh Lieb

  Hands, Things In Life, People

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.28, Penguin

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• Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

  Will Self

  Jobs, Book, People

  "Will Self considers the Coen brothers". www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

  Maria Sharapova

  Careers, My Family, Whole

  "Maria Sharapova: My love for tennis stopped me from walking away". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2010.

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• He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.

  Darynda Jones

  Years, Skins, Allergies

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.117, Macmillan

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• It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, Rose, Looks

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