Joanna Scott Quotes
In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
Quotes to Explore
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
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I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
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There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.
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Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.
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In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
