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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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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If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.
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I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.
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We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.
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A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.
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When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.
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It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
