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 hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.
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The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers.
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Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
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I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.
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I'm not a New York snob.
