Kathleen Turner Quotes
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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Journalists in newspapers and in many magazines are not permitted to be subjective and tell their readers what they think. Journalists have got to follow a very strict formulaic line, and here we come, these non-fiction writers, these former journalists who are using all the techniques that journalists are pretty much not allowed to use.
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As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right.
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When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
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I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
