Scilla Elworthy Quotes
I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
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My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron...and a lot like Patrick Ewing.
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The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
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Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
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I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.
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A good counter needs no calculator.
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I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.
