Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
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I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.
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I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.
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It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
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And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.
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I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.
