Scott Turow Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
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I think the arts are very important for children growing up.
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That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
