Taylor Momsen Quotes
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.
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I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.
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I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first.
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All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
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That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger - not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
