Ted Turner Quotes
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I'm an emotional person.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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“I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.”
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.
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I see what keeps people young: work!
