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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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.
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I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
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I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
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To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
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That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
