Andrew Taylor Quotes
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
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When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.
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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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Driver had his own rules of war, and he tried to teach them to me. You know, when you clean a weapon the first rule is always clear the chamber. Not Driver. His first rule was always check to make sure it’s your weapon, so you don’t end up cleaning somebody else’s weapon.
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Why do we think only the dead haunt us, for the living are just as good at it?
