Laini Taylor Quotes
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I've always been into looking different.
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I'm sure every author has their own process.
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We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
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I even have some stories of people telling me how that song has changed their life, how it got them through hard times, how it saved their life when they were on the verge of thinking of doing the worst. That just really amazes me, that that movie [Romeo + Juliet] and that part in the movie are still having a huge effect on people's lives today.
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The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
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Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.
