Rip Taylor Quotes
Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
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Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
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My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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I love anything quiz related.
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You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps.
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I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it's also real, you know, it's also real people and real drama. The same with the military. I mean, a good science fiction story is also great.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win.
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Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
