Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.
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But now I can see that perfect simply means learning how to forgive and to accept and to do everything you can to love with your whole heart.
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The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.
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It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the surface of what we’re capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!
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I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.
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The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'
