Davinia Taylor Quotes
I have this rule now that I keep people around me who I enjoy being with when I'm sober.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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When a horse offers their face to you, they're interested in what you are, what you're doing. They're paying attention.
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Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.
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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
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I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar.
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I have this rule now that I keep people around me who I enjoy being with when I'm sober.
