D. J. Taylor Quotes
Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do.
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
You never imagine that when you say hello to someone and you fall in love, that some day you'll have to say goodbye.
When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.
Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"
I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don't already exist, and see the world through someone else's eyes.
I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!
When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.
Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.
I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.
I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.
Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.
There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.
The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.
But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.
When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.