Chip Taylor Quotes
It's wonderful walking out of this building to know what we're telling people actually works.
Quotes to Explore
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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To be looked at from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass' with one eye, close to, for almost an hour.
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I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.
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You can get insular with fashion.
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People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
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The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.
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Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
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Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.
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It's wonderful walking out of this building to know what we're telling people actually works.
