Taylor Sheridan Quotes
I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I grew up on films.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.
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I love anything to do with history.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
