Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
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When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
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I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
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My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'
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As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
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You only get better by playing.
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I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
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Just like Lara Jean in my book 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before,' I used to write letters to boys I was in love with - letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination - but they were for my eyes only.
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We have to ask the tough questions.
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I'm extremely confident. I do believe my own hype. And I'm working towards making it true.
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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply.
