Scott Turow Quotes
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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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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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
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My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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The best gift I could give my father would be to represent India in the Olympics. If I can do that in 2016, and even win a medal, it will be fantastic.
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People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
