Lili Taylor Quotes

It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

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• I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Art
  • Space
  • Best

• Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Sea
  • Green

• I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Bad

• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Golf
  • Impossible

• I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • New York
  • Bestseller

• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • People
  • See
  • Eat

• You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Best
  • Do Your Best

• All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Positive
  • Profit

• I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Spiritual

• You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Great
  • Different
  • Important

• I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I’m sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sick
  • Princess

• Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • People
  • Lonely

• The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.

  

  Pietro Mascagni
  • God

• Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • World
  • Hope

• Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • People

• Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Competition gives birth to a lot of success, and if no one ever challenged you, you wouldn't go anywhere. It makes sense to compete with others for a promotion at work. But so many women take it a step further and won't even support other women. They end up competing over things that don't make sense - like how we look.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Up
  • Work
  • Women

• I just feel like there's a lot of things more important than just basketball, and I love basketball. It's what I want to do for the longest time possible. It's what I eat, it's what I sleep about, it's what I breathe, it's in my lifestyle. I just really feel like there's more important things than just putting the ball in the hoop.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Sleep

• We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • World
  • Live
  • Compassion

• I believe that people should get a second chance, but I do believe that Baylor is threatening the safety of their students by putting somebody like that in a classroom with girls.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Safety

• You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.

  

  Adam Haslett
  • Character
  • Myself
  • See

• We never envisioned this much stuff. I'm overwhelmed by the support out there for the troops, ... only one company that will remain nameless turned us down.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Support
  • Company
  • Stuff

• It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

  

  Lili Taylor