Laini Taylor Quotes
Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I love to write.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
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I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.
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From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the extent that people believe they can prevent, terminate, or lessen the severity of aversive events, they have little reason to be perturbed by them. But if they believe they are unable to manage threats safely, they have much cause for apprehension.
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What’s happening to families at the border right now is a humanitarian crisis. Every parent who has ever held a child in their arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency, should be outraged.
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To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
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Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
