Frank Turner (Francis Edward Turner) Quotes
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I just write mechanical things.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
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I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
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Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
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No one gets remembered for the things they didn't do.
