Elizabeth Scott Quotes
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
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If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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The more we love our earth, the more we love our life.
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
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I will always know what life can take, but I am ready to see what it can give.
