Taylor Hackford Quotes
I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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I don't like controversy.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
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I get I style inspiration everywhere: the streets of New York, magazines... everywhere!
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If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
