Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes

In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.

Nell Scovell

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• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Present
  • Better
  • Tension

• Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Film
  • First
  • Impossible

• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Philanthropy

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Over

• The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Best

• People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Christian
  • Religion

• Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Like
  • Read

• I've been blessed. I've had a great life and am continuing to have one.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Life
  • Great
  • Blessed

• I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Live
  • Best
  • Thing

• The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Long
  • School
  • She

• When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Friends
  • Comedy
  • Stupid

• From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Man
  • Day
  • Make A Difference

• The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Different
  • Crazy

• Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Religion
  • Focused
  • Driven

• I like to do a couple of yoga classes during the week. Yoga for me is more of an elongating thing.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Couple
  • Yoga

• Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Hate
  • Water

• I really like my eyes, nose, and lips. I especially like my nose. I really like my lips too. I think my lips are sexy.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Thinking
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and just intellectualizing it on any level. I just want to speak from the subconscious, which knows way more about me than my intellectual side will ever know. Once I start doing the arrangements - what I call the architecture of the song - that has a lot of thought put into it.

  

  Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López At the Drive-In
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Architecture

• When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.

  

  Neal Asher
  • Together
  • Words

• In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.

  

  Nell Scovell