Joanna Scott Quotes
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure - like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
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You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.
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The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
