Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
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My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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I don't want to, anyway. I've got a job here with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I'm at home and I don't want to leave home. Living at home is a big plus after you've been gone from home for 55 years.
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'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story.
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You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
