Taylor Mali Quotes
I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
