Alex Turner Quotes
I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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Little tornado You and the hurricane Close your eyes and go campaign Make it go faster Baby go faster Make it go twice the speed of you and me
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I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
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I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.
