John Turturro Quotes
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.
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We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.
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Imagine the unimaginable... What would the world look like if America did not exist?
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I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.
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Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.
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I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.
