Scilla Elworthy Quotes
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
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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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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
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Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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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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He asked my religion and I replied 'agnostic'. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.
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I have nine compartments in my brain, and four of them don't stop.
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It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.
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Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.
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Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve
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People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean energy where we can.
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I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
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If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.
