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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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 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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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
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If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.
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"The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of the kids or hit two of the kids, hit all the kids, hit her, she would usually get in the car. We'd drive out. She would say, I'm going to divorce him. I'm never going back.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.
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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.
