Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott (A. O. Scott) Quotes
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
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My ambition was not to create a new field, but I would have welcomed a permanent group of people having interests close to mine and therefore breaking the disastrous tendency towards increasingly well-defined fields. Unfortunately, I failed on this essential point, very badly. Order doesn't come by itself.
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My family has loved Minnesota and that was one of the big reasons we decided to come back. For me, family decisions were a big part to coming back to the Twins.
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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If you nominate us for something, we're going to win.
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A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
