Walter Scott Quotes
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.
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Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.
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Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
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There's a gude time coming.
