Taylor Momsen Quotes
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.
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I have always loved fashion, trends, style, make-up and hair, but yes, some sort of a transformation truly happens when I play a 'bahu'. That's when I have to wear brown lenses to cover my green eyes, colour my hair dark, wear saris, and surprise myself that I can pull this off, too.
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When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'
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I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.