Elizabeth Scott Quotes
Try to live. Try to be happy. Things end, people leave, and life goes on. You need the bad things to feel the good ones.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.
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Sometimes people think I'm gay. A lot of people have asked me if I'm gay. I answer, 'Look, not to my knowledge. But I'm still young, it could be that in the future, I'll find out that I'm gay.'
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Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there's only two possible explanations: you're really stupid, or you're really cynical and trying to get really stupid people's votes.
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I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.
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Try to live. Try to be happy. Things end, people leave, and life goes on. You need the bad things to feel the good ones.
