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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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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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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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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in a private letter to letter to Emile de la Rue on 23 October 1857
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Of course I'd like children. But I have to get over my impression that being pregnant is like popping corn. You expand and expand until you pop.
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This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.
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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.
