Taylor Caldwell Quotes
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
