Andrew Taylor Quotes
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody – running back, quarterback, wide receiver – make the plays that Vince Young made today.
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I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.
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The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.
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We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.
