Laini Taylor Quotes
A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
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Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.
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I'm not a psychic. I don't look at a crystal ball.
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You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.
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One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.
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A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
