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The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. -- Pierre Salinger
I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?' -- Ken Follett
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. -- Oscar Wilde
When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come. -- Oswald Spengler
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities. -- Terence McKenna
Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade. -- Rumi
One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good. -- Cobie Smulders
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. -- William Hague
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen. -- Dave Brubeck
I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me. -- Thomas Keller
Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30. -- John Cusack
Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade. -- Mark Ruffalo
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. -- Anna Quindlen
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. -- Walter Kaufmann
And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on. -- Richard Branson
One way of paying tribute to my parents was 'bearing witness' as the Quakers do - writing down everything that was happening instead of turning my back on it and pretending that it was all great. -- Roz Chast
There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not. -- Domhnall Gleeson
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there. -- Chellie Pingree
If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game. -- Magnus Scheving
You get very comfortable doing the open mic circuit, turning up to the same places and playing to 20 people. In that situation, it won't matter if you aren't great on that night because no one will really remember who you are. Then suddenly you are doing rooms to 400 people and you have to up your game. -- Pippa Evans
All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it. -- Mike Nichols
When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me. -- Victoria Beckham
Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.' -- M. C. Gainey
In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal. -- Richard Carmona
Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time. -- Frederick Osborn
You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning. -- Laozi
The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young. -- Paul Dickson
The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young. -- Paul Dickson
At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story. -- Hank Phillippi Ryan
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object. -- Richard Rohr
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved. -- George Washington
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work. -- E. Nesbit
Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down. -- Laurie Davidson
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. -- Walter Kaufmann

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