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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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
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You don't let it be a distraction. That is not what you do. There are going to be things that happen and you don't focus on those things. You focus on getting the football team ready to play and you handle the other things up front the way we do it.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
