Laini Taylor Quotes
This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
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Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in Denver. I snuck a camera backstage and filmed Mick Jagger during sound-check.
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I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss.
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Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.
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I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
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This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.
