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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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.
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I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.
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I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
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It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
