Elaine Sciolino Quotes
I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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I had always done broader characters, but going to UCB and speaking to my own voice was important for auditioning for TV and film.
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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.
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What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.
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I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?
