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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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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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.
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Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
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Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.
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Lil Wayne, that's my brother. Birdman, that's family.
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Mim, to Nelson, about Annabelle, aged 39 'This little nursie's not your problem. At thirty-nine, everybody's their own problem...'
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It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
