Elizabeth Scott Quotes
And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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I hate celebrating birthdays.
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I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.
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I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.
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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
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Well, you know, I just - I believe marriage should between a man and a woman.
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Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.
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I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.
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Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.
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Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
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I don't date girls. I date women.
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And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.
