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Adam Scott Quotes

I think that a movie of a TV show is really tricky, and I don't know if it's ever really been done well. Because it's really hard if you have a 22-minute show, especially something like 'Party Down,' where it's all contained at the party.

Adam Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 3, 1973

Topics

Think You Down Party Know Done

All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!

Jessica Simpson

Beautiful Woman Beautiful Woman Say

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

Anna Deavere Smith

Write Big Intense About I Write

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Sinclair Lewis

Class Middle Century 20th Century

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

Ritchie Blackmore

Art Always Out Playing Going Tune

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance?

Michael Porter

Business Competition Win Management

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

Joseph Brodsky

Job Step Writing Society Book Meet

Speaking to the coach has been my number-one criterion at every club I've played for to find out what he expects from me, how he will make me improve, and that he'll play me.

Dimitri Payet

Me Find Play Will Coach Club

Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.

China Mieville

Writing Feel Sometimes Way Become

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

Wynton Marsalis

Believe You Violin One Thing Second

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

William Golding

Ideas World Violence Three Escape

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Life Better Mission Accomplish More

Robert Altman was a very jovial guy and obviously a famed improviser and perhaps less effective in post-production, which is like the crystallising process. So I found myself at sea often with him because we'd have conversations about what music is, and in the end, I don't know how interested he was?

Thomas Newman

Music Sea Myself Process End Know