James Taylor Quotes

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

James Taylor

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By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.

Jerry Della Femina

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To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

Jenson Button

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I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.

Andrea Riseborough

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I can watch 'Mission: Impossible' all day every day. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is so hot.

Meagan Tandy

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That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

John Schlesinger

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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

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I live in too many cities.

Shirley MacLaine

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Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.

Luke Evans

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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

Douglas Brinkley

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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

Arne Duncan

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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Alice Munro

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A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Phyllis McGinley

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