Kathleen Turner Quotes
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
Kathleen Turner
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. Sebald
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Hannah Murray
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
Umberto Eco
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
Aby Rosen
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Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
Q-Tip
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
Pat Burns
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New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.
Patrick Ewing
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
Abu Bakr
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don’t forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.
H. L. Mencken
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I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
Drea De Matteo
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I felt very at home in California, but the place is prone to earthquakes, and the one in 1994 scared the life out of me. For months afterwards, I felt that every time I sat down, I should have put on a seatbelt.
Christine McVie
Fleetwood Mac
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
Nanette Lepore
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I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn't have a formal face-time culture - and I felt empowered by that.
Dara Khosrowshahi
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Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
Linda Tripp
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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
Kathleen Turner