Scott Turow Quotes
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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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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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.
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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
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I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
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Charity cures heartaches.
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I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.
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For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.
