Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes
When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn't do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody's.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.
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I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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I'm essentially a humorist and, I think, a pretty good one. I've known all along that 'My Friend Dahmer' is the one book I'll be most known for, and in a way, that's a drag, as it's nothing like the rest of the work I've done or will do moving forward. But the way I figure, it's better to have a best-known work than not to have one at all.
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When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn't do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody's.
