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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?"
"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."
"If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe."
"It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours."
"Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes."
"Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress."
"You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place."
"Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them. If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them."
"When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress."
"There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here."
"I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch."
"The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is."
"It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top!"
"The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command."
"It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love - I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again."
"Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life."
"I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them."
"Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails."
"Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch."
"Scratch a socialist and you find a snob."
