Scharpling Quotes

#1. I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth.

Tom Scharpling

#2. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa

#3. I am fairly certain that I was the first Seven Sisters grad to eat duck liver chased with a Diet Coke in the lobby of a federal penitentiary. Then again, you never know.

Piper Kerman

#4. I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do.

Tom Scharpling

#5. My friend Phil Morrison directed a lot of my favorite videos back in the mid- to late-90s - all the Yo La Tengo videos that were funny, a Juliana Hatfield video. He was such an influence with me, and I wanted to do a video the way Phil used to do videos. I did that for Phil.

Tom Scharpling

#6. The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

Mitch Gaylord

#7. The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption - and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

Tom Scharpling

#9. If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

Timothy Dalton

#10. The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

Tom Scharpling

#11. Look, you couldn't pay me to listen to their music, but I still feel like I have more in common with Insane Clown Posse than I do with someone who just sits on the sidelines and shits on other people's work and who never puts themselves on the line.

Tom Scharpling

#12. In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.

Tom Scharpling

#13. Creeps get rewarded for being creepy.

Tom Scharpling

#14. I love doing the show more than anything. It's truly the most satisfying thing creatively that I've ever had in my life.

Tom Scharpling

#15. I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.

Tom Scharpling

#16. I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working.

Tom Scharpling

#17. I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it?

Tom Scharpling

#18. Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven

Leo Tolstoy