Kathleen Turner Quotes
What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
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Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
