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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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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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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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
