Scott Pelley Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
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The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
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For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.
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Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.
