Scott Turow Quotes
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
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I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
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I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.
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No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
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The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
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When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.
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What I tell a girl is, your six-pack hot boyfriend right now, in six years, will be balding and maybe have a paunch. But I make you laugh every five minutes today, and I'll make you laugh 20 years from now; that's not going to go away.
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Film, you're kind of there with some people for two or three months or so unless it's a really huge picture, and then you go away, so you don't get quite as close to the people.
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With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?
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If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.
