John Turturro Quotes
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
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In the busy haunts of men.
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It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
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The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners
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When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.