Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
Quotes to Explore
-
Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
-
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
-
Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
-
Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
-
I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
-
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
-
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
-
Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
-
Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
-
I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
-
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
-
In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.
-
As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
-
By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.
-
I'm an explorer.
-
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
-
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
-
I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
-
The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.
-
You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
-
We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.
-
Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
-
Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
-
I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
