Scott Pelley Quotes
No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
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I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.'
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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I became what I wanted to be.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.
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I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.
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Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.
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No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
