Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
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What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.
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Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
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Utendum est aetate: cito pede labitur aetas.
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Money never sleeps.
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There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.
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Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.
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Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all
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I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free.
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I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.
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I think to myself that this really isn’t something I should concern myself with.
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Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I’ve been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.
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I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.
