Ted Turner Quotes
I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.
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Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
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Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
