Scarlett Thomas Quotes
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I would like to direct.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.
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It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
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My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
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I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
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Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.
