Nancy E. Turner Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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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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I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.
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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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Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.
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In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.
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It seems to me as usual they are looking at the wrong address. They should look closer at home. I don't think the Sharon policy of attempting to besiege a whole people ... is a policy of utmost responsibility.
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A clock only turns one direction
