Lisa Scottoline Quotes
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.
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I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.
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I like Mexico. And I respect the leaders of Mexico because they’re much smarter, they’re much street smarter, but they’re much smarter and more cunning than our leaders. But you have to see what’s going on.
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We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
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I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.
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I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
