Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
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I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
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Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.
