Andrew Taylor Quotes
We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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I was raised on NBC television.
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We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.
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Sometimes I feel more like an actress and sometimes more like a singer. To be honest I can’t really choose between the two. For me the one compliments the other.
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That was a huge shot with the clock running down. He really brought us together, and we settled down late in the game.
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We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.
