Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
Harry Browne
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
Irina Shayk
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
Laura Osnes
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
Mallory Ortberg
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
Sam Kean
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Irving R. Kaufman
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Kate Winslet
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
Karin Slaughter
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
Nancy Gibbs
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
Uzo Aduba
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
Kacey Musgraves
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
Gary Ackerman
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Mahalia Jackson
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
Vanessa Bayer
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Being professional makes it easier for me to say no, be honest, and not feel bad about it. However, that doesn't mean that you stay aloof.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
Brion James
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I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
Kerry Washington
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Terrible things happen all of the time, and they can happen in a second. The best thing is to be prepared to react. If you try to control every little thing, you're going to end up miserable - and you're going to fail.
Jason Isbell
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We in no way are naive to think that just because Russia and the United States agree to reduce their arsenals, that everyone else will fall in line.
Valerie Plame
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In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.
Nell Scovell