Scratches Quotes - Page 17

• Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Might, Made

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Random House

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• I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!

  Anne Frank

  Running, Fall, Worry

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.180, Bantam

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• People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

  Henry Miller

  Blood, People, Skins

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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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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• Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Mother, Hook, Littles

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• Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

  Milla Jovovich

  Peasants

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• Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Nonconformist

  "The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 321), 1940.

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• You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.

  Jack Dorsey

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

  Henri Langlois

  Art, People, Genius

  "Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Chevron has wrapped itself in some pretty good arguments that make you scratch your head. The moral responsibility is certainly at its door. I leave it to other people to figure out whether there's legal responsibility.

  Joe Berlinger

  Responsibility, Doors, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.

  Ben Lerner

  Couple, Real, Book

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.

  Beth Orton

  Writing, Taught, Process

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.

  Mike Pesca

  Nice, Ears, Toes

  "'If You've Got a Good Solution, I'm Going to Steal It for a Future Answer'" by Mike Pesca and Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. July 29, 2015.

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• I mean, as you start to scratch the surface - and that's what I think the intent of these films are. Here's a little bit of something if you're interested go read about it and it's a little bit more fascinating. It kind of is.

  Chris Henchy

  Mean, Thinking, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

  James Altucher

  Jobs, Home, Years

  "My Minimalism Manifesto" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2012.

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• When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

  Beau Willimon

  Creating, Roles, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we build it from the ground up, or whether we come on when the movie is done or almost done. The idea of supporting the underdog and getting a smaller movie out there in a big way is equally exciting.

  Jason Blum

  Ideas, Underdog, Almost Done

  Source: collider.com

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• A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!

  Sheldon Harnick

  Crazy, Home, Simple

  "Fictional character: Tevye". "Fiddler on the Roof", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.

  Rick Astley

  Home, Kids, Iphone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Believe, Men, Expression

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting, which you should never do in stop-motion animation. With this, it was a much smoother ship, so I wasn't getting sent the scratch reels of things.

  John August

  Song, Add, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.

  Rick Atkinson

  War, Reading, Writing

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• I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

  James Marcus

  Pet, Machines, Knows

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