Bart Scott Quotes
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.
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Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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As the movement matures, a lot of us are starting to look at that conundrum. If we feel like [the media] didn’t say what we were talking about, maybe we need to also think about how we can be more intentional about messaging our actual demands.
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I'm holding a media mutiny.
