Scott Glenn Quotes
I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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I think we have to be very careful how we treat people, even when we are supposedly trying to help them.
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.
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I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.
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There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
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More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.
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I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.
