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'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.
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Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
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I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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I'm a crier - let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.
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That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
