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James Taylor Quotes

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 12, 1948

Topics

Character Myself I Am Living Am

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

Job Professional Place First Kid

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Great People Problems Everyone Being

To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.

Robert J. Bentley

Government People Think Fair Depend

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Sparky Anderson

Want Him Bench Catcher Comparing

The trick to my writing, it turned out, was doing so exclusively in bed. The minute I even dared to discipline myself and write at the desk, I produced mounds of nonsense. Yet, sitting in bed, I wrote easily, effortlessly, fluidly. I became the master of perfect indiscipline.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Myself Discipline Writing Doing Bed

Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

Ugly Feeling Never Always Surface

Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.

Culture People Feel Gay Way Never

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Today Day Slavery More Height Slave

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

Truth You Choose Feelings Run Never

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

Creative Will More Globalisation Our

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Years May Ruins State Hour Scare

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

Me Eye Feel Confused Duty Way

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