Taylor Dye Quotes
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.
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I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.
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I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
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Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.
