Taylor Caldwell Quotes
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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This bikini made me a success.
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.
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In the real world, children love me.
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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
