Anthea Turner Quotes
If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
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Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
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Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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Freedom is a universal value.
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I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
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If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
