Marisa Miller
Model, Actress
"If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch."
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Scratches
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Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'"
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Socialite
"I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch."
Jose Saramago
Writer
"It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch."
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"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."
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"I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm."
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"It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure."
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"History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business."
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"We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost."
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"Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time."
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"When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal."
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"Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist."
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"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."
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"Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff."
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"Scratch a king and find a fool!"
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"Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation."
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"..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."
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"If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, “Wow, that was awesome?” Or would they scratch their heads and say, “I wonder what that was all about?"
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"I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out."
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"If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe."
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"It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours."
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"Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes."
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