Tina Turner Quotes
As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
Tina Turner
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
Fede Alvarez
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
Nadia Comaneci
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
Eddie Marsan
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
Samantha Barks
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
Anand Giridharadas
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Sunsets are great. Sunrises are a mixed bag. You either got up way too early or went to bed way too late.
Matt Dillon
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We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
Keith Miller
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I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
Deana Carter
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He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.
Priscilla Presley
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The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.
Anne-Marie Duff
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
Rachel Cusk
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As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.
Amy Bloom
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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self- sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Betty Friedan
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
Alan Paton
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As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
Tina Turner
