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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Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
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You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.
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So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal.
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I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.
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Renaissance Italy became a kind of Hollywood collection of sets of antiquity, and the new visual antiquarianism of the Renaissance provided an avenue to power for men of any class. (p. 136)
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In man's most dark extremityOft succour dawns from Heaven.
