Laini Taylor Quotes
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
-
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
-
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
-
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
-
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
-
You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
-
TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
-
I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
-
I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
-
I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
-
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
-
Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
-
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
-
Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
-
The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
-
If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
-
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
-
I won't join another band again.
-
I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.
-
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
-
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
-
A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
-
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
