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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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.
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Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
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I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
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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.
