Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes

I turned 40, and things started to go south.

Nell Scovell

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• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• The pace of television is very different from film.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Film
  • Television

• If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • May
  • Career
  • Know

• I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Great
  • Different
  • May

• When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Done
  • Nice
  • New York

• I think the Creator renews me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Me
  • Creator

• I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Dark
  • Like
  • Break

• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
  • Mystery

• I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Think
  • Famous
  • Paris

• I just want to have a nice, happy life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nice

• Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • You
  • Me

• Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Look
  • Rules
  • Own

• If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

  

  Walter Payton
  • You
  • Change
  • Now

• Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Listen
  • Him
  • Rush

• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Joy

• The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center… in the political sphere… the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Political
  • Small
  • Magic

• One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Life
  • Education
  • Goals

• What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Life
  • Art

• 'Haven't you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?'

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Children
  • House

• I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Doing

• Even when we feel like we have found theological common ground—like Abraham as the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims—we quickly discover that even those paradigms have their limits. There are a million Hindus in this country, and over three million Buddhists, and neither of those communities would be called Abrahamic. But they live in America, too, and we have to have a paradigm that includes them.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Discover
  • Limits
  • Jews

• I turned 40, and things started to go south.

  

  Nell Scovell