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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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.
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A good life is a main argument.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
