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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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
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Bill Murray is such a tremendous talent, but the world wasn't ready for 'Razor's Edge,' for something that thoughtful and with that much depth at that time in his career.
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I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."
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People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
