Laini Taylor Quotes
The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
