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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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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I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
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I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.
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It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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I did my best to hide by changing my name many times. But I was captured by the Chinese police. But because my Chinese was so good, they thought I was Chinese and released me. That was a miracle.
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There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.
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I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.
