Taylor Mali Quotes
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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I'm 27, and I have no idea what I am doing half the time. I am just trying the best I can, and I think that speaks to a lot of other women out there.
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I never failed at anything in fiction.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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Terror cannot be finished by one war.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
