Noelle Scaggs Quotes
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The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
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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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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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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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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
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I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
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The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway.
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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known. I was a graduate research student at Cambridge working towards my Ph.D. and chose quasars as the subject for my thesis. Part of my project involved surveying the sky for them using a radio telescope.
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I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
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When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.
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Long, creative relationships are unusual in rock'n'roll, but the mileage and the knowledge and the understanding from having been around with [Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois] for 20 years makes them a pleasure to work with.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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I love talking about food, and bringing people together to enjoy it.
