Boz Scaggs Quotes
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.
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Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
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When a film fails, the lead actor is always blamed for it.
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The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
