James Turrell Quotes
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
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Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.
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My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
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I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.
