Scratches Quotes - Page 16

• I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

  Heath Ledger

  Imagination, Film, Fingertips

  "Heath Ledger on 'Candy'". Interview With Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. November 29, 2006.

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• Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Father, Believe, Qualms About

  Phyllis McGinley (1968). “Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• [On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Hurt, Skins, Nails

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• The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Process

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• What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

  Juliana Spahr

  Girl, Mother, Writing

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• We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Starting Over, Saturn, Type

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• Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

  Julian Tuwim

  Strong, Prohibition, Fidelity

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• That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

  Sharon Jaynes

  Trying, Doe, Cover Ups

  Sharon Jaynes (2007). “The Power of a Woman's Words”, p.80, Harvest House Publishers

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• I approach every role from scratch.

  Paul Dano

  Roles, Approach

  "Paul Dano on Dream Girl Zoe Kazan Coming to Life in Ruby Sparks". Interview with Karen Kemmerle, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2012.

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• When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

  Laurie Metcalf

  Next, Ends, One Thing

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• You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.

  John Cullum

  Actors, Littles, Preacher

  "Q&A – John Cullum (Lee Garner Sr. of Lucky Strike)". Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com.

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• Scratch my back with a hack saw!

  Mike Lange

  Saws, Hacks

  "Cow-kicked: FSN fires Lange as Penguins' TV voice". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 30, 2006.

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• In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

  Justin Timberlake

  Creating, People, Directors

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

  Steve Aylett

  People, May, Originality

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• Scratch a king and find a fool!

  Dorothy Parker

  Kings, Fool

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs.  If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Friendship, Eagles

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Dignity, Minutes

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• Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Add, Picky

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2015

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• I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Writing, Ideas, Firsts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their seeming determination to force the whole Church to adopt the Catholic Lite approach that has, in a bizarre inversion, emptied German churches of congregants while vastly expanding the German Church's bureaucracies.

  George Weigel

  Determination, Catholic, Church

  Source: eppc.org

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• Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

  Twyla Tharp

  Reading, Hero, Creativity

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Earthquakes, Return

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Prayer, Lying, Drinking

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• I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

  Clint Eastwood

  Writing, People, Wish

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Littles, Stale

  "Boris Kodjoe Interview UNDERCOVERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2010.

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