Aaron Taylor-Johnson Quotes
People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
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I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.'
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
