Alan Taylor Quotes
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
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There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
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When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.
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Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.
