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.
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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.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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The word 'change' has been abused so many times.
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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.'
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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.
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I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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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.
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Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.
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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.
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With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
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I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.
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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.
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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.
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India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.
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'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.
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Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
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Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Nando's - boom! That's what I'm thinking of whenever I'm in London. I go there every time.
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Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.
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I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
