Tina Turner Quotes
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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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.'
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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I love the ultimate escapism of paranormal and fantasy - all of the otherworldly creatures, magic, and possibilities that transport both reader and writer away from reality for a while - it's such delicious fun!
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
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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.
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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.
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We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.
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Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.
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I wouldn't say that my family is normal.
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But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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If you haven't heard my story, my mom is full Korean, and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian, and when you're that age, you don't know really how to process that; the way you take that is, 'Who I am isn't good enough.'
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As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
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As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
