Walter Scott Quotes
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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The invention of photography has made the painter and the patron lose interest in the likeness and transfer it to some more formal pattern. Our whole sensibility has been re-created by such subtle shifts.
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I'm a lover, not a fighter. No battles for me.
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Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.
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The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
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In man's most dark extremityOft succour dawns from Heaven.
