Taylor Hicks Quotes
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
