Scott Turow Quotes

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.

Scott Turow

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For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Jesus Christ

LoveYouRewardTaxSameEven

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Jesse Jackson

PeopleToughAbortionUpThings

You don't really know when the last time you're going to do something is; the middle can often be a bit blurry. Firsts are very potent.

Jenny Han

TimeYouKnowGoingLastMiddle

Everyone is different, and every relationship is different, and I think the rules can change, and feelings can change. It's not only about who you're with, but also where you are in your own life and your own process.

Andrew Rannells

LifeChangeRelationshipThinkYou

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

Stephan Pastis

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We can get carried away with our heads in books, and although there's so much to be learned from that, I think sitting in a cafe and speaking with someone - whatever it is, their mannerisms, their choices, are just as valuable as any class you can go to.

Rose McIver

ChoicesThinkSomeoneYouSitting

Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place.

Miroslav Volf

JusticeDayBelieveEndPlaceDone

In Psycho IV, the time is five years after III, and Norman is out of the hospital. He's a married man, and he's finally learned how to love somebody and have natural sex without killing his lover.

Joseph Stefano

LoveTimeManSexHospitalOut

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

GoodManYouDoneHimLike

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

TimePoetryAttentionYouSayTwice

How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.

Alicia Keys

LoveJourneyI AmPeopleMeBlessed

I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

Alfred Molina

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