Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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I like happy endings.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
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A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.
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I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.
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There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.
