Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.
Quotes to Explore
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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What does not change / is the will to change
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We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.
