L'Wren Scott Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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Practices were tough.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.
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A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.
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I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.
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The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
