Scott Pelley Quotes
I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
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'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
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When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
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I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.
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I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes.
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That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.
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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.
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There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.
