Taylor Caldwell Quotes
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it is the world's only superpower. Equally important, the United States is also far more disposed to use its power than any other powerful nation currently is. Though Americans are culturally and emotionally blind to the fact, the mere intrusion of US power is, in and of itself, destabilizing.
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A foreign government has more say over Northern Ireland than the people of Northern Ireland.
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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
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I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
