Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
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Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
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I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Definitely, study is absolutely necessary in all forms - it's just like any talent that's born within somebody. It's just like a good pair of shoes when you put a shine on it, you know? Like, schooling brings out the polish of any talent. It happens anywhere in the world.
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You just do it one step at a time.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.
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As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.
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Hollywood is hard on everyone, but it really is harder on women and people of color.
