Holland Taylor Quotes

#1. It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

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#2. I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

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#3. I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

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#4. I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

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#5. It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

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#6. Those lyrics tell the story Dahlia, our story. I wrote that song five years ago and even now when I sing it, your face is the face I see. You're unforgettable Dahlia. You're perfect, really.

Kim Karr

#7. Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

Frederick Lenz

#8. I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

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#9. There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

Albert Dietrich

#10. I just never was the marrying kind.

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#11. I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.

Shannyn Sossamon

#12. It wasn't just that he was breathtakingly handsome with perfect features. Which he was. But there was something else, too.

K.F. Breene

#13. I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

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#14. Studies continue to provide evidence that more than any other food, fruit is associated with lowered mortality from all cancers combined.

Joel Fuhrman

#15. Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.

Paulo Coelho

#16. I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

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#17. You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

Graham Taylor

#18. When he thought of a joke he made it, and was called brilliant. When he could not think of a joke he said that this was no time for trifling, and was called able.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.

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#20. Do the thing itself. Don't pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don't ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

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#21. I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

Elmore Leonard

#22. In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.

George Takei

#23. But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

Fred F. Fielding

#24. I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

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#25. My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

George Sarton