Janine Turner Quotes
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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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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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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Modern sport can be an ugly convergence of commerce and celebrity, but it still has the capacity to move a crowd.
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I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.
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Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
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I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.
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I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
