Marjorie Scardino Quotes
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.
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As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
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Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
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I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.
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I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.
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I took after my father.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.
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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
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All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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So I’ll walk the plank and I’ll jump with a smile.If I’m gonna go down, I’m gonna do it with style,and you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess,'Cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.
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I've played the wicked mothers; I've played the serial-killer-type mothers now. They have to have an edge on them. They can't just be everyday moms, because I never thought of myself as an everyday person in cinema - I'm an everyday person in real life, like anyone. But not in what I project out there. I want something more exciting.
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Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,Of Attic taste?
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Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.
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It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.
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The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.
