Laini Taylor Quotes

Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

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• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  

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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

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• What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

  

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• I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.

  

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• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

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• While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

  

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• The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

  

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• The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

  

  Jack Dee
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• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

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• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  

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• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

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  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

  

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• My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.

  

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• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

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• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

  

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• Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

  

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• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

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• I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

  

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• I like laughter around me.

  

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• You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

  

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• Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

  

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• I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and the overall power is achieved in bringing all impoverished people together. The common denominator is pain, because we all suffer through the deaths of loved ones and eventually suffer death.

  

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• Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Pain
  • Terrible
  • Epic