Katie Taylor Quotes
I always come into these competitions hoping to come away with a gold medal. I won't relax until I have the gold medal around my neck.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.
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I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
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I have a couture body.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
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If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.
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You've gotta play the Hollywood game, and you know you're doing good the more notoriety you're getting, and that's gold. That's what every actor wants because then you know you're at another level.
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I always come into these competitions hoping to come away with a gold medal. I won't relax until I have the gold medal around my neck.
