Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.
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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a very dark comedy book, whereas 'Red Lanterns' is more of a cosmic saga that has some jokes every once in a while.
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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
