John Turturro Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
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I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.
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Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
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The past has to inform the present.
