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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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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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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The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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I just like to bring energy. I always try to create a moment. Memories are important to me, and I like my look to go with the mood or the moment.
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Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It's a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in.
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The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.
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I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.
