Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
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In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
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If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
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I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
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This sort of admission of error, of change, makes us trust a critic as nothing else but omniscience could...
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Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.
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Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.
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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
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Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
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I am most anxious to get into my London painting-room, for I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas. I have done a good deal of skying for I am determined to conquer all difficulties, and that among the rest.
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I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.
