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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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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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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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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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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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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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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Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.
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Gil didn't know us well, which was good. It made us step up and really make an effort. We had only made albums with one person in ten years. It helped to have an outside perspective.
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The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
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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.
