Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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Most people know nobody in the military.
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Study men, not historians.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
