Lisa Scottoline Quotes
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.
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I would trust Lennon not only to babysit my child but to raise them. Literally, that's who I would want to raise my child.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
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I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.
