Dale Turner Quotes
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
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Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.
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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
