Scott Turow Quotes
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.
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Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
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I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
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Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
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Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.
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Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
