Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
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There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page.
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A good reputation is more valuable than money.
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Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.
