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Nell Scovell Quotes

When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus.

Nell Scovell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 8, 1960

Topics

Work Focus Better Feel Write Asking

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Jimmy Buffett

Mind Quitting Enter

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

Jessica Simpson

Good Think Anything Southern Accent

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.

John Carroll Lynch

Evil Long Actor Human Capable See

There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.

Max Heindel

Moon Tide Earth Flow Hidden Never

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.

Amity Shlaes

Future Support Doing Tax Virtue See

For a DJ at my level, you can really go through life and travel the world without seeing a single thing. It's harder to go out and see the sights than it is to play a show.

Steve Aoki

Life Travel World DJ You Seeing

I try not to look for messages in films.

Robert Duvall

Look Try Messages Films

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

Robert C. Merton

Work Community Research Always Years

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

Martin Scorsese

Work Myself Think Friends Know Own

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

Michael Moore

Best Religion People American Side

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

Dick Dale

Book Guitar Play Players Scale

When there's no technical problems, if you did the right casting, and the scene is well written, the actor will give you a strong performance with his intuition right from the start.

Denis Villeneuve

Performance Start Problems Strong