Taylor Caldwell Quotes
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
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There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.
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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
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I'm not that interested in people.
