Frank Turner (Francis Edward Turner) Quotes
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
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I love British bands.
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I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.
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I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too.
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If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.
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I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.
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I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.
