Laini Taylor Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
-
I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!
-
Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
-
Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
-
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
-
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
-
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
-
We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
-
Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
-
People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
-
It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
-
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
-
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
-
I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
-
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
-
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
-
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
-
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
-
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
-
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
-
Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
-
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
-
I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
-
I've always been a reader and a writer.
