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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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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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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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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Life is God's art.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
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I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.
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Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.
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I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.
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I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.
