Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • More
  • Hollywood
  • Where

• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Ignore

• 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.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Just

• Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Only
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • She
  • Mother
  • Food

• The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Work
  • Value
  • Independent

• 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.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Help
  • Luck
  • Dumb

• 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.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Speech

• 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.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • City
  • Eyes
  • Lake

• 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.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Community
  • 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.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Prideful

• I'm an explorer.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Explorer

• Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!

  

  Ted Williams
  • Future
  • Game
  • Question

• My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Technology

• The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • Mind
  • Want

• Sometimes the human race is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squander them just because we are human beings. This is all about that.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Human
  • Gifts
  • Squander

• A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women can turn into these other people. They're planning something that's the biggest event they'll ever plan in their lives and it turns them into this other person, so it's not totally the guy's fault that he's feeling disconnected from this person.

  

  Alison Brie
  • People
  • Women
  • Guy

• The proposal is the only thing that the guy has control over in the entire wedding deal. It is your one chance to make this moment stand out, not only for you, but for her.

  

  Drew Seeley
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Wedding

• I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Wedding
  • White
  • Dress