Alan Taylor Quotes
The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where it does get you more value on screen.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I love to sing all kinds of music, but I know that my heart is for people to know God, and I want them to experience his love.
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
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I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
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Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.
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A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.
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The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where it does get you more value on screen.
