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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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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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 like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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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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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
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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 want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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I have friends who died being successful bohemians. Today, I see people my age who are gifted but who insisted on staying in this group, and it's beaten them so bad. They have to spend so much time on ego maintenance, they can't get any work done. They'd be very happy to sell out, but there are no buyers, and that hurts.
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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.
