Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
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When you invite friends over, especially for food, with the food you want to send out a message of affection, of appreciation, of celebration. But also of culture - who your family is.
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If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness and take it as if today was the last day of your life. Don't be looking constantly to the future.
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I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
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The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.
