Scott Snyder Quotes
That's what everyone thinks--they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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The United States has a responsibility to defend our values.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Most things still remain to be done!
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I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.
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All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
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Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. The continuity such an impression ignores is a literary continuity.
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I've told you and I've told the Canadian people, Mr. Mulroney, that I had no option.
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That's what everyone thinks--they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.
