Nancy E. Turner Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.
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One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
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Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks.
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
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I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.
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A clock only turns one direction
