Paul Taylor Quotes
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
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My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.
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Every time I listen to Eminem, I fall in love with music all over again.
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There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.
