Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.
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Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.
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Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.
