Kathleen Turner Quotes
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.
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I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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I don't care what people's myths are about me.
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The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
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I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.
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We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.
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The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
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I'm not a New York snob.
