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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How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?
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The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
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Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.
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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.
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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.
