Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.
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The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation in the making, we will continue to get it wrong.
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One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
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In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.'
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes.
