Scratches Quotes - Page 13

• Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Hands, Ears, Useless

  "Planet Of The Apes: Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". Cinema.com Interview, www.cinema.com. 2001.

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• If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

  Nick Clegg

  Opportunity, Keys, Trying

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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  Harlan Coben

  Dream, Kids, Happy Life

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• Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.

  Harlan Coben

  Mother, Hands, Twenties

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• I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Being Happy, Children, Fun

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• An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

  James Dyson

  Fists, Path, Inventor

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• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Yale, Hands

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• You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

  Ina Garten

  Puff, Want, Pastries

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  Randolph Bourne

  People, Tragedy, Contemplation

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

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• I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Tired, Sleep, Three

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• As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, Running, Art

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• I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Thinking, Civilization, Stories

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.

  Rod Serling

  Bullshit, Looks, Affliction

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.

  Dean Wareham

  Thinking, Pieces, Paper

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• If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends who like punk rock a lot. Not getting a big record deal, and having a hard time for years, it means you have to prove yourself and scratch your way up from nothing.

  Martha Wainwright

  Mean, Hard Times, Years

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• I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

  Jason Mraz

  Thinking, Different, Records

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• The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.

  Edwyn Collins

  Children, Guitar, Tv Shows

  "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 07, 2002.

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• If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. In this play, I had a strong main character and it involved some creation around him. That's what I like about adapting that particular play because I added some maneuvering space as a scriptwriter to invent my own things.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Strong, Character, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that.

  Darynda Jones

  Eyebrows, Multitasking, Flip

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.18, Macmillan

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• The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

  Bear Grylls

  Needs, Truth Is, Lifetime

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• [On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Hurt, Skins, Nails

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• Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

  Thomas Beecham

  Giving, Musical, Legs

  To a cellist; attributed, no source found

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• Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

  Alan Kay

  Wise, Typical, Cavemen

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• Belief builds from scratch. Doesn’t have to relax, it doesn’t need space

  Gavin DeGraw

  Space, Relax, Needs

  Song: Belief 2, Album: Chariot, 2003

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