Scott Turow Quotes
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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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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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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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For newcomers, modelling is like a stepping stone to acting. The exposure and experience in modelling helps... But for acting, we have to show a lot of hard work and dedication towards it.
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
