Frank Turner (Francis Edward Turner) Quotes
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.
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He deserves it, he is a fantastic player. He has won everything, apart from the Champions League, which I am praying he can do,
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Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.
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If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.
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Music is the only art that actually lives.
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In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'
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The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
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I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.
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I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
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We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell.
