Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
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Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
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Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
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What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy.
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I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
