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Scott Turow Quotes

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don't want to sacrifice anybody else's privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don't love them. I think I've been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1949

Topics

Life Family Love Good Children Free

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Good Women Men Woman People Skills

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

Growing Up Growing Up Bands Lot

The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

Marriage Truth People Sick Truth Is

I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.

John Hickenlooper

Glasses Skinny Acne Thick Had Wore

People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope.

Hope People Democracy Vote Should

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

Focus Energy Long-Term Rather Than

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Robert Benchley

Time Waiting Evil Reputation Windows

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

You New Old Old Thing Thing Becomes

I've been working pretty solidly for a long time: Not that anyone would notice, you know what I mean? It's been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.

Work Time Long You Goal Possible

A roast is really an honor. If they picked me to be roasted, I'd be the most flattered I'd be in my life. If I could pick some people to roast, I'd pick my heroes, Don Rickles and Howard Stern. Those are the people I'd like to give some honor to.

Lisa Lampanelli

Life People Me Honor My Life Heroes

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Vision Romantic Step People Dream

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

Good Goals Myself Outside Need Very

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