Noah Taylor Quotes
Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.
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I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.
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I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
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Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.
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What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
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I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.
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I get very inspired by traveling, by being home in Donegal ... all those wonderful moments I'll take with me to the studio. And they, ah, then become at some stage, a melody. That emotion that I loved at some stage will evolve as a melody.
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Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
