Taylor Momsen Quotes
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I get homesick.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Making music is fantastic.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I do feel a responsibility. It's a privilege to be able to speak about it, but I don't speak for all gay people.
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Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming.
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I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.
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I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.
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Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
