Lili Taylor Quotes
I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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Some people dote on contemplating disasters.
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But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.
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The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.
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You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
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I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.
