Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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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.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • Men
  • Book

• I'm cranky.

  

  Larry David
  • Cranky

• 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?'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Smart

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Live
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • History
  • Past
  • You

• If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• 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.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Process
  • Search

• 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.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Day

• I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Really

• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • You

• 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.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Car

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Look
  • My Life

• The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Most
  • Miserable
  • Hardest

• Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Man
  • Working
  • Sweat

• 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.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Think
  • Game
  • Air

• I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

  

  John Travolta
  • Want
  • Mean
  • Opinion

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• My mother had no interest in cartoons. I remember thinking, 'I am never going to grow into that person.' Which is so ironic - now I get to work on 'Family Guy' and 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama', all of these great animated series! TV was my passion.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Latency is very important when you think about autonomous cars and things like that - 5G will really change the game, and I think will be another spike of growth in the wireless industry.

  

  Lowell McAdam
  • Important
  • Game
  • Growth

• I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • School
  • Character
  • Book

• When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Kid