Elizabeth Scott Quotes
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
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If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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I actually wasn't much of a book reader at all before the 'Twilight' series. They just draw you in, and people love them. They're terrific books.
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.
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Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.
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Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
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I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.
