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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Age Old Age Balance Brave Enough

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

John Cage

Past Need Gone Destroy

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

John Conyers

Health Time Care America Now

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

John Irving

Good Character Time Believe Better

If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.

Anna Kendrick

Myself Day World Ego Every Day Mess

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

Tommy Lasorda

Baseball Thought Reach Manager Way

When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's old tapes and records, and I found 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. I remember so vividly the first time I put it on. It blew my mind: his voice, the way he could play the guitar. I must have listened to the album over and over for weeks.

Tom Odell

Time Day Mind Grace Voice Guitar

Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

Ron Perlman

Nice Therapy Pay Paid Get Rather

Folly always knows the answer.

Mason Cooley

Always Answer Folly Knows

An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.

Mary Helen Bowers

Space Refreshing Purity Serene

My partner of 45 years is Australian, and a big part of her character is that marvellous quality of irony which Aussies possess. I relish their humour and sense of fairness.

Miriam Margolyes

Character Quality Partner Fairness

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

Mitch Albom

People Me End Better Die Hand

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

Jose Padilha

Science Bridge Start You Create Two