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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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
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Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
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The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.
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We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.
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I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
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Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.
