Kathleen Turner Quotes
I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.
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If we now plainly perceive that the passage of the blood from the arteries into the veins of the tadpole is not performed in any other than those vessels, which are so minute as only to admit the passage of a single globule at a time, we may conclude that the same is performed in like manner in our own bodies and in those of other animals.
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I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.
