Taylor Sheridan Quotes
Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
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Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.
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Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.
