Fred L. Turner Quotes
I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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Winning feels great, and everybody loves a winner. But the very best figure out what's coming next and don't assume they've got the winning formula forever.
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I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.
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I didn't see a lot of role models or women who looked like me on screen when I was growing up. For me, one thing that changed all of that was seeing Keke Palmer in 'Akeelah and The Bee.' That film made me realize that I wasn't an alien.
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I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.
