Taylor Hackford Quotes
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
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What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
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I have a pretty good sense of direction. And if I get lost, I just act like I know where I'm going.
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
