Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
