Janine Turner Quotes
You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.
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It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to shock people. We're just trying to make it funny in a way that makes the audience go, 'You know, that was the first joke they thought of, and they weren't afraid to do it.'
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I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
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Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.
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'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
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You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126
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You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.
