Deborah Turbeville Quotes
A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.
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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
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Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
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I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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The fashion world is 10,000 times more superficial than the art world. Fashion people are so much crazier than art-world people. They are constantly trying to leech from the art world, but they will never be able to do what we do.
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I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who'd go to the Gobi desert pregnant.
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A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.
