Scott Derrickson Quotes

I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm writing and making and thinking about things very seriously and feeling very deeply at times, and trying to translate that into a narrative.

Scott Derrickson

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WritingStoryThinkingTryingInside

Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.

Jill Stein

PovertyLivingTalkSheQuickSolid

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.

John Ortberg

LifeHumilityVirtueLeadServant

My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.

Trent Franks

DesireFirstDeepestJustThing

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Tom Wilson

HappinessEnjoyYouDependMuchHow

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

Michael Mosley

LearningGoodMoonFlyingReading

I never would've thought in Homeland Security that you would see someone saying that we needed to have hearings on radicalization of Christianity because it's a purported threat to America as much as radicalization of Islam.

Mo Brooks

SayingThoughtAmericaSomeoneYou

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

Joseph Kosinski

FanHuge

I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.

Jon Katz

DogTimeExperienceHappyHealing

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Dee Hock

EphemeralSubstanceEnduringForm

I like women around. I like female energy. I find it very important.

Brett Gelman

WomenEnergyFindImportantLike

Get the entire team involved in identifying and evaluating project risks. Everyone looks at the project differently, and sometimes the input from the student intern can be vital.

Bruce Pittman

RisksTeamLooksStudentSometimes

I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.

Ariel Pink

TimeStupidSucceedThinkIdiotYou

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