Scott Turow Quotes

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

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• I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Value
  • Never
  • Say

• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • God
  • Clothes
  • Thank God

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.

  

  Warren G
  • Long
  • Death
  • Doing

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• What really matters is what you do with what you have.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • You
  • Really
  • Matters

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • True
  • Lies
  • Tell

• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Different
  • Want
  • Kind

• If the books are selling, the money will follow.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • Money
  • Follow
  • Selling

• Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

  

  Laura Riding
  • People
  • Art
  • Friendship

• People will always want a free lunch.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Free
  • Lunch

• My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Work
  • School
  • Home

• With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Reading

• Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres

• Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

  

  Emil Brunner
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Mode

• If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Lordship

• This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Friend
  • Purpose
  • Laugh

• Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Remember
  • Memories
  • Facts

• The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Purpose
  • Complexity
  • Ambiguity