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Aida Turturro Quotes

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 25, 1962

Topics

Family New York Born New Sides Both

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

Life Baseball Think Pressure Doing

Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything.

Child Everything Excel Wanted Ever

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Yourself You Enemy Ignorant Your

I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.

Food I Am Why Way Hot First

After 9/11, there was so much distress in America that it led to an inter-cultural breakdown. Some of our communities were targeted. Many of our adults shut themselves off from other cultures. I tried to bring children of Indian and other cultures together in my literature.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Children Together America Literature

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

Home Feel Nashville Started Been

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

People Enough Psychedelic Velvet

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

Love Death War Ideas Injustice Run

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

Man Government Democracy Oppressor

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

Live Sports Time Money Ride Me

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gain Prize Pursuing Rapture

It's fun being pregnant at the same time as someone as prominent as Kim Kardashian. Seeing her beautiful body change and morph makes me remember mine is doing the same, and although it may not always feel beautiful, it really is.

Change Beautiful Time Fun Me Doing

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