Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm going to say to my fans.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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My approach to the races hasn't changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.
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I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.
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You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
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I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
