Ann Turner Quotes
I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
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You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.
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In family relationships, 'love' is really spelled 't-i-m-e,' time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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When I was a little girl and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I got older, I always used to say I want to be paid to think. So for me, to dream, to think, to write - it is wonderful.
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I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.
