Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?
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I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
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I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.
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I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
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... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.
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Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.
