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Ike Turner Quotes

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

Ike Turner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1931 - December 12, 2007

Topics

Life Start Story My Life Doing Why

When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.

Jim Beaver

Day Me Go Kid See High

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

John Guare

Life New York City Short Alive New

I am a competitive figure skater. I've been doing that for the same amount of time I've been doing acting. Ever since I was two.

Jenna Boyd

Time I Am Doing Acting Two Same

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Strength Confidence Time Myself

I don't know that I had context for being trans until I moved to Rochester, New York, to pursue my dream of acting, and started going to drag shows. I had never seen a transsexual before, and I didn't yet fully understand my own identity.

Angelica Ross

New York Identity Dream Acting Know

There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

Jeff Buckley

Work Business Music Great Doing

A lot of people are scared of experimentation because they think you have to be scientists, or they're also scared of it because it means that you have to admit that you don't know the answer. A lot of people like to assume they know the solution to a problem when they don't.

Stephen J. Dubner

People Think Problem Solution You

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

Stephan Pastis

Page Comics Absolute Repeats

I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

Steve Zahn

Good Job School High School Thought

I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.

Rodman Philbrick

Influence Book Weird Career Find

My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

Mona Eltahawy

Parents Generation Nationalism High

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Luc de Clapiers

Sleep Mind Indolence