Elizabeth Scott Quotes

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

Elizabeth Scott

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• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Way
  • Me
  • Fire

• You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • You
  • Sexy
  • Head

• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
  • Know
  • Me
  • Him

• Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Action
  • Easy
  • Suspense

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Great
  • Man
  • Beginning

• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Too Much

• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Guy
  • Free

• In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Why
  • Character
  • You

• And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Work
  • Player
  • End

• The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Growing
  • City
  • Building

• I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Time
  • Long
  • Cute

• Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

  

  Kim Dickens

• Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Poverty
  • Candle

• To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • People
  • Dream
  • Nightmare