Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

Joe Jamail

HomeWalkFeelI Feel LikeCourtroom

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Maya Lin

ArtDayMeArtistEvery DayAlways

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

RiverCityIslandEverythingUrban

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Michael Ignatieff

PatriotismStrongFeelingCountry

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

SuccessBusinessDayHandHardJust

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

Mary Steenburgen

PeopleMeActingWayMoreAct

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.

Constance Baker Motley

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Free trade was once a Republican conviction.

Bret Stephens

FreeRepublicanConvictionFree Trade

Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer.

Bryan Fogel

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All any artist can do is please themselves.

William Shatner

ArtistPleaseThemselvesAny

There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

Philip Hammond

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Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

Sharan Burrow

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