Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
My first joke that ever aired on 'Late Night' was for a list of 'Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.' My contribution - 'Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut' - squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at 'Late Night' faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.
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The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
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It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
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I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.
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It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.
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My first joke that ever aired on 'Late Night' was for a list of 'Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.' My contribution - 'Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut' - squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at 'Late Night' faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp.
