Laini Taylor Quotes
A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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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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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
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I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.
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Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
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A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
