Taylor Swift Quotes
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
