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.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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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.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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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.
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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.
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The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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I've been blessed. I've had a great life and am continuing to have one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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And how am I to face the oddsOf man’s bedevilment and God’s?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.
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I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.
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But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
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In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.
