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James Taylor Quotes

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You Person Go Real Private Person

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

Jesse Eisenberg

Time Day Lonely Long You Acting

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.

John James Audubon

Life Man New York Yellow Me Ship

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

Back Excitement Need Get Definitely

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

Love Time House Same Romance Hooked

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Roads Speed Nobody Limit Miles Hour

My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

Parents Me Loved Go University

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

Culture Child American Popular Yeah

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.

Life Father Mother Poetry Child Me

Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

Johnny Knoxville

Good Pain Me Think Feel I Can

I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.

Children Darkness Loved Literature

Maybe I'm a bit of a Luddite.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

Puerto Rico Grandfather Over English

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