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?

Kathleen Turner

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• 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.

  

  Florence King
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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?'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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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.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
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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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  • Same
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• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
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• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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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.

  

  Salli Richardson
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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
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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.

  

  Imre Kertesz
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
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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.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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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'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
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• I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
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  • Money

• John Parsons: What about the women who want babies now and in 10 years won’t be able to have babies? Rather impractical don’t you think?

  

  Margaret Sanger
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• If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.

  

  Amal Clooney
  • Beach

• As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dance

• 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?

  

  Kathleen Turner
  • God
  • Children
  • Kids