Elizabeth Scott Quotes
It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.
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Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.
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I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
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It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.
