Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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When I'm singing, that's all me. That's from the bottom of my heart - it's everything I've worked for. When you're on stage, there are no guidelines. No one's telling me what to do!
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If you start wielding a hammer, then all your problems look like nails. And maybe they’re not. Maybe it's more subtle than that. And so your toolkit has to be able to morph into what is necessary for what it is that you confront at that moment.
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A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
