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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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 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've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.
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If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
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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.
