Dylan Taylor Quotes
Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
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We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.
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People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.
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Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.
