Chip Taylor Quotes
That was the thing we talked about early, was taking that away. In the second half I thought we did a better job, but it was too late.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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That was the thing we talked about early, was taking that away. In the second half I thought we did a better job, but it was too late.
