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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The factory workers say that it’s impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, 'Where did you get the watch?'
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I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
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We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?
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I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.
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...NAFTA, signed by her husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.
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A clock only turns one direction
