Karen Tayleur Quotes
Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
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Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or Robert Louis Stevenson novel - they're not autobiographical, and yet there's a reality in every single page. It's real life of the imagination.
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Dont forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.
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Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.
