James Taylor Quotes
I passed on the cocaine,Said bye-bye to my methadone.Put down the bottle for one more day.Backing off of my Tobacco Jones.Still I feel like a hopeless junkie,Like a man who can't say no.I look back and there's that monkey;Rascal won't let go.
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I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
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The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
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My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a lot of movies that I want to watch sooner rather than later. I have a list that's like, 'Read an essay from this book, then this one, then go back to this one.'
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
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I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.
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I believe in working hard all the time. I have faith that working hard is going to get me where I want to go.
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The idea that either individuals or organisations are 'too big to fail' or that the tech and start-up sector is somehow different is wrong.
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Maybe some young girl seeing me on the Emmy stage may have meant something for them.
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To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.
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I passed on the cocaine,Said bye-bye to my methadone.Put down the bottle for one more day.Backing off of my Tobacco Jones.Still I feel like a hopeless junkie,Like a man who can't say no.I look back and there's that monkey;Rascal won't let go.
