Dougray Scott Quotes

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

Dougray Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: November 25, 1965

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For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.

Jerry Seinfeld

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I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.

John le Carre

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If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.

Robert Motherwell

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I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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Baseball is the life.

Steve Garvey

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Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They're all conversating, and we're just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it's not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.

Stephen Marley

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Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Mike Fitzpatrick

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

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I love the hip-hop scene.

Jason Statham

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They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

Debbie Meyer

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I like the fact that music is more abstract.

Bryan Ferry

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