Elizabeth Scott Quotes
She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
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If we reject science, we reject the common man.
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She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.
