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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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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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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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it.
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Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY.
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What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.
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The past has to inform the present.
