Scratches Quotes - Page 9

• I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

  Amanda Burton

  Inspiration, Character, Ideas

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• I have no problem with starting from scratch.

  Leif Garrett

  Problem, Starting, No Problem

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• I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

  Hal Linden

  Moving, Starting Over, Roles

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• Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars. . . . I'd rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

  J. D. Salinger

  Horse, Crazy, Thinking

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 17

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• The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.

  Jack Horner

  Country, Wind, Broken

  Jack Horner, James Gorman (2009). “How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution”, p.37, Penguin

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• Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.

  Betty Rollin

  Sex, Differences, Feminist

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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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• What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.

  Patti LuPone

  New York, Boston, Cities

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• It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

  Richard Branson

  Divorce, Hard Work, People

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach back into the tradition. Western tradition is not as impoverished as a lot of people would like to think, but you'd have to go back before the industrial revolution; you may have to go back farther than that. Of course, the Bible has a perfectly adequate language, but it's suffered a lot of thoughtless wear.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, People, Adequate

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

  Mitchel Resnick

  Kids, Interesting, Want

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• When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Hands, Opinion, Fence

  "Carl Hiaasen reports from 'Paradise'" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2001.

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• If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Pie, Want, Firsts

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• I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

  Ruth Wilson

  Voice, Dancing, Parent

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

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• 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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• Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

  Yoko Ono

  Awards, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• [C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once and not have to talk to one other person, which is a miracle in furniture arrangement.

  Nova Ren Suma

  People, Miracle, Furniture

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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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• If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex as the scratch-reflex can be termed a reflex of double-sign, for it develops excitatory end-effect and then inhibitory end-effect even during the duration of the exciting stimulus.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Duration, Ends, Reflexes

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• Love and charity share the same root word (caritas). How is that possible, when everything in our recent history suggest they cannot coexist, that they are antiethical, that if you put the two of them together in a sack they would bite and scratch and scream, until one of them is torn apart?

  Nick Hornby

  Two, Roots, Together

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