Paul Scott Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
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'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
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I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.
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She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
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‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’
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At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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'O gin I find anither ladye,' He said wi' sighs and tears, 'I wot my coortin' sall not be Anither thirty years:'For gin I find a ladye gay, Exactly to my taste, I'll pop the question, aye or nay, In twenty years at maist.'
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We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
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A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
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People don't think music to be a reliable source of income or career, which I will agree, in a way, because Bollywood is a very risky place to be in.
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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
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I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information.
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I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
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The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
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The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
