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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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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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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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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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 had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
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People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!
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I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.
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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.
