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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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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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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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.
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Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
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I stayed in the East for about a year after I graduated. Then, I came out to Los Angeles and started knocking on doors and working my way up. This was the '70s. I had been told how tough it was for a woman trying to make it in Hollywood, but I sort of had blinders on. I just did things anyway.
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I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
