Taylor Momsen Quotes
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.
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I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.
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Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
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I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.
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I don't work with a stylist.
