Taliesin Quotes
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
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The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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I am frequently attacked.
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I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
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The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.
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A satellite has no conscience.
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In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.
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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
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And entreating his exalted weight, Under the stars, saints he planted.
