Alan Taylor Quotes
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
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The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
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It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
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Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.
