Scott Turow Quotes
Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
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I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.
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You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.
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Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
