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 could be playing high school until I'm, like, 30 or something, at the rate I'm growing.
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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I’m junk but I’m still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
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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.
