Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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Genetically modified foods are good.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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I must have been an annoying child.
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One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she's mean.
