Scott Turow Quotes
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.Scott Turow
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton -
A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
Maisie Williams -
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
Frances McDormand -
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
Lamar Alexander
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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
Barry Levinson -
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
Olivia Wilde -
Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.
Pankaj Mishra -
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving Howe -
The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
Aaron Allston -
You can grow apart from people very quickly.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
Venus Williams -
If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
Gary Cole -
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
Edmund White -
I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.
Lars von Trier -
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
Beau Bridges -
For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.
Patrick M. Byrne
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
Tahereh Mafi -
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
Gary Coleman -
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
Ben Bernanke -
There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
Eudora Welty -
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton -
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
Scott Turow