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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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.
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There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level.
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Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.
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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.
