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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Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing, we have begun, at last, to understand.
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People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
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I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?'
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It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was 'Old enough to fight, old enough to vote.' The new motto is: 'Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote.'
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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.
