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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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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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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My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people.
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I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.
