Walter Scott Quotes
She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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My childhood was appalling.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.
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Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
