Alex Turner Quotes
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
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I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
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Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.
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on global warming There's a group of people who, a little while ago, were saying, 'It's not happening.' That same group of people are now saying, 'Alright, it is happening, but it's not our fault.' That's a very dodgy position to be in. That's like saying, 'I'm not having an affair, and, anyway, she seduced me'.
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A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.
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To gain a better understanding, I'm just trying to make it real/reel. Like a fisherman, Pon De River fam. I Pon My Bank, deposit my thoughts. Till my mind draws a blank and I withdraw from checking. I'll leave that with ya'll for a second...
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There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.
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All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.
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And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.
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As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
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I'm not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest.
