Jeremy Taylor Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.
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Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.
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The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
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Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
