Christy Turlington Quotes

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

Christy Turlington

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• No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Political
  • Training
  • Office

• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• The word 'change' has been abused so many times.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Change
  • Word
  • Times

• I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Period

• When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Sleep

• I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interest
  • Big
  • Swing

• Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

  

  Babasaheb

• I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

  

  Ned Beauman
  • Mood

• Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

  

  James Frey
  • School
  • Done
  • Home

• I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Time
  • Long
  • Amazing

• The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.

  

  Dennis Wilson
  • Great
  • Wonder

• Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Law

• India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.

  

  Clark Blaise
  • America

• 'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.

  

  J Balvin
  • Music
  • Song
  • Culture

• Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

  

  Jim McKay

• I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.

  

  Jim McKay
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Anytime you are with a horse, no matter if you are a daily rider or one who just gets a chance to ride to the mailbox, you are interacting with your horse. It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity. Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Chance
  • Horse
  • Rider

• You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.

  

  Negash Ali
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Connection

• I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • Community
  • Enough
  • Changing

• Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Life
  • Die
  • Smoking

• Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Wall

• I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Smoking