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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The principle of inorganic equality was for them crucial. Men of the stamp of Jahn and Arndt had no notion that it was Equality that had first sounded the cry of 'Vive la nation' in the September massacres of 1792.
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I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.
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At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
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Because of Rudy Giuliani's policies of reducing crime in New York City, tens of thousands of black men, women, and children are alive today that wouldn't have been otherwise.
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Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
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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.
