Lili Taylor Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
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The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.
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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.
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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.
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I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.
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Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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When you're in a soap, it's fantastic, and I'm really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen.
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
