Alan Taylor Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
-
I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
-
Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
-
It's been tough for me being away from the game.
-
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
-
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
-
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
-
I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
-
The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
-
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
-
I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
-
'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
-
I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
-
My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
-
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
-
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
-
Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
-
My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
-
Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.
-
I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
-
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
-
The past is not a package one can lay away.
-
Getting the blood moving through your body does do wonders for your complexion.
-
I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.
