Ike Turner Quotes
I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
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[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
