Lisa Scottoline Quotes
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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I want all my films to do well.
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Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.
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Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
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You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
