Joanna Scott Quotes
In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.
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I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
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The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
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Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.
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Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.
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While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
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In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
