Tao Lin Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
