Scott Turow Quotes
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
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I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.
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When President Bush goes on television and says certain cultures hate us for our democracy and freedom, he's just wrong. Everywhere I went in the Middle East, everyone told me how much they loved America and Americans; the hatred is directed at American policy.
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Everybody's got somewhere they call home.
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The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
