Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
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We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.
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It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.
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I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'
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I've got a hockey record, I took off my skate and tried to stab a guy, I'm the only person who ever tried that.
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I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.
