Walter J. Turner Quotes
The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.
Quotes to Explore
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
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Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.
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That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.
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I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
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When people talk about streaks like that, it's more than just physically being able to do it, day-in and day-out.
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The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.
