Josh Turner Quotes
When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
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When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.
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The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.
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At the end of the day, the only person to have a better Kobe sneaker game than me is Kobe himself.
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Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
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When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.
