Kathleen Turner Quotes

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

Kathleen Turner

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I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.

Jennifer Fallon

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I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

John Grant

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I make my living talking about serious subject matter, but I'm a weirdo.

Meghan McCain

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I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.

Story Musgrave

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Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.

Shiv Nadar

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I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that my ability to study came from a hunger to learn all the resources of articulation.

Tony Harrison

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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Jon Meacham

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I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.

Debra Messing

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Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Auberon Waugh

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If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

Peter Diamandis

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I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

Sean Penn

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