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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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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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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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.
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When I first got here, I thought L.A. sucked. I hated it. I had this pretentious Manhattan thing. But now I've made such a life here, and I'm so happy here. They're just really different places. I can't really compare them because there's great things about both of them.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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I've always had an obsession with rackets.
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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.
