Elizabeth Scott Quotes
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
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A 007 James Bond image is very dangerous for a central banker to have.
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'If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.'
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The outline of our lives, like the candles flame, is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that, along with our responses to them, determine our fate.
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This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'
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To be looked at from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass' with one eye, close to, for almost an hour.
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There was nothing about Bobby I didn't like... I guess I never understood why he took a left-hand turn when real success came. We got along better from 1990 until his death in 2003. I had accepted him for who he was.
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I'm very simple when it comes to gifts, so the best ones that I've received have love as their main intention. I appreciate everything.
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As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
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I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.
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Bill Hicks is a huge influence. I love him.
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I stop short of being a workaholic.
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The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.
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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
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Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.
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And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.
