Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.
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I think Japans work really hard, and when they have a chance to listen to music, they just go crazy. And the Ramones would be a natural fit for Japan, because Japan invented the cartoon, and the Ramones, especially in Rock 'N' Roll High School, are very cartoonish. So it'd be a perfect group for them.
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.
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Give me a rock, and I will roll it.
