Aida Turturro Quotes
When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
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I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.
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Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
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My greatest love is my children, and they have inspired me to fight and stand up for the right things.
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That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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If I'm played out of position, I'll always give 100%, but everyone knows I would rather play down the middle.
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In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
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When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
