Scott Turow Quotes
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
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It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.
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I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.
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So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
