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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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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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 don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
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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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I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.
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I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
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I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
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Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?
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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.
