Walter Scott Quotes
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.
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I want people to see what's inside my head rather than just looking at me.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
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As old as the hills.
