Taylor Caldwell Quotes
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
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To be happy about the fall of one powerful man is to know there are another 10 that need to follow.
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There was only so much space between us, not even a real distance if measured in miles or feet or even inches, all the things that told you how far you'd come or had left to go. But it was a big space, if only for me. And as I moved forward to him covering it, he waited there on the other side. It was only the last little bit I has to go, but in the end, I knew it would be all I would truly remember. So as I kissed him, bringing this summer and everything else full circle, I let myself fall, and was not scared of the ground I knew would rise up to meet me.
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Anymore cutting and the movie would be as silly as cutting a condensed Reader's Digest novel.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
