Deborah Turbeville Quotes
I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.
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To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.
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In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species.
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Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
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I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.
