Susan Holloway Scott Quotes
I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.
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I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
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I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.
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It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise.
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I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.
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I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
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I like to play paintball in my back yard.
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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
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I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.
