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• Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose and exquisite detail, Stachniak has resurrected one of the most compelling ages in history. Turn off the phones and lock the doors—you will not put it down.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Heart, Doors, Phones

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• I'm actually a hardcore otaku who likes maids more than having three meals a day. And I only read books related to maids. Also, I only visit maid cafes. Of course, I also collect maid figurines. I play games which feature female maids and it turns me on so much. Then I'll wear the maid uniforms and jump in joy. I'll take my leave now.

  Hiro Fujiwara

  Book, Games, Play

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• This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.

  Charles Barkley

  Hate, White, Issues

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• Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.

  Harrison Ford

  Self, Political, Atrocities

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• One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, May, Matter

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• I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it.

  Kenny Chesney

  Careers, Albums, Want

  "Kenny Chesney escapes to the islands". www.today.com. January 26, 2005.

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• I don’t like boys who are mean to their mommies. That’s a real turn off for me. And I don’t like boys who aren’t chivalrous. To me, not being respectful is a big deal.

  Megan Fox

  Real, Mean, Boys

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• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  Ed O'Neill

  Thinking, Personality, May

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• I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good f**k she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Looks, Care, Shapes

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• Literally it’s the precise moment when dog doo turns white, but in general it refers to the type of person you don’t want to share your hoogencogles with.

  Betty White

  Dog, White, Want

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• I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, "Should I get face work?" And my mother and Anne Bancroft said to each other, "We are who we are, and we're not going to fall into that."

  Laura Dern

  Mother, Fall, Faces

  Interview with Naomi Watts, Interview Magazine, www.lynchnet.com. August 2004.

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• That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

  Laura Dern

  Feel Good, Feels

  "New again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.

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• As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

  Ben Whishaw

  Eye, Rights, Understanding

  "Ben Whishaw: Mysterious Skin". Interview with Gareth Mclean, www.out.com. March 27, 2011.

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• I was going to get an abortion the other day.
  I totally wanted an abortion.
  And it turns out I was just thirsty.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Abortion

  "Are you sitting uncomfortably?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

  Goldie Hawn

  Junk, Body, Ifs

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• In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Wall, Hard Work

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• Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

  Richard E. Grant

  Criticism, Kind, Film

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• In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Two, Public Opinion

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.581, Routledge

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• Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.

  Sarah Vowell

  Real, School, Caring

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Aug 29, 2015

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• I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

  Jena Malone

  Children, Writing, Class

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• I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son] turns to me the other day and says, ‘One day, I will have a girlfriend. But I might have a boyfriend. If I’m gay.’ He’s 7! And I said, ‘You might have a girlfriend or a boyfriend, darling.’ And he said, ‘Which would you prefer?’ And I said, ‘My love, that would be entirely up to you, and it doesn’t make any difference to me.’ But that he knows! It’s a real privilege. Talk about the best education.

  Kate Winslet

  Girlfriend, Children, Real

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• In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.

  Duke Ellington

  Eye, Hands, Ideas

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

  Albert Finney

  Mean, Mirrors, Clothes

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• I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I'm home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I'll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.

  Blake Shelton

  Coffee, Home, Phones

  "Blake Shelton On Adam Levine: ‘I Want To Kiss Him So Bad’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?

  Heath Ledger

  Father, Dark, Night

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