Scarlett Alice Johnson quotes

“If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.”
-- Scarlett Alice Johnson

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“No matter how isolated or lonely or down and out you feel, there is always a way out.”
-- Scarlett Alice Johnson

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“I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.”
-- Scarlett Alice Johnson

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“It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.”
-- Scarlett Alice Johnson

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“I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor, it's a brilliant place to live because you've got inspiration all the time, wherever you are. You can turn a corner and you'll be in mansion houses with beautiful gardens and Ferraris, and you'll turn back on yourself and it'll be ghetto land. But I think that's brilliant.”
-- Scarlett Alice Johnson

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“I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm like NO ONE and I'm just starting out and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“No one pays me to be nice.”

“It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.”

Source : "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.

“It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.”

“The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.”

“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”

“Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.”

“Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife”

“the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.”

Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays”, Prentice Hall

“A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.”

Source : Ansen Dibell (1999). “Elements of Fiction Writing - Plot”, p.155, Writer's Digest Books