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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I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a quarterly special, an hour, three to four stories each hour.
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If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.
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The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
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Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.
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We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
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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.
