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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I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.
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I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason.
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My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.
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I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.
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I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
