Laini Taylor Quotes
I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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It is the young people in whom I place my confidence because of their competence, because of their enthusiasm, because of their capacity to meet the frontiers that are changing every week.
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When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
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I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.
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I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.
