Taxi Quotes - Page 5

• Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

  Sidney Sheldon

  New York, Angel, Lunch

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• I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

  Dan Stevens

  Thinking, Would Be, Drivers

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• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  Cory Monteith

  Teacher, Years, Class

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Morning, Sunday

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• You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

  Marilu Henner

  People, Knows

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• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Work, Failure

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• When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery—much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.

  Aisha Tyler

  Girlfriend, Phones, Cells

  Aisha Tyler (2013). “Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Struggle, Bread

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• 'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

  Jodie Foster

  Chickens, Weirdo, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

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• With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, Acting, Moments

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• When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

  Todd Phillips

  New York, School, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Nice, Giving, Brave

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.

  Claudio Reyna

  Relationship, Sports, Strong

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• [My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

  Judd Apatow

  Dream, Writing, Needs

  Source: variety.com

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• Every week I'll be spending money on flights, accommodation, stringing and even things as simple as taxis, meals out and, of course, paying the other members of my team. I'm still very careful, though, with what I'm spending.

  Andy Murray

  Team, Simple, Meals

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

  Jason Biggs

  Skepticism, Sequels, Trepidation

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• I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

  Marc Newson

  Ordinary Things, Ordinary

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• I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

  Thuy Trang

  School, Engineering, Interesting

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• I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.

  Trini Lopez

  Corporations

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• I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about.

  Sarah Sutton

  Doctors, Looks, Stuff

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• Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Depression, Moving, Daddy

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

  Julie Schumacher

  Book, Village, Groups

  Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.151, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• 'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.'

  J. G. Ballard

  Tired, Moon, Car

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• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  T Bone Burnett

  Years, Two, Records

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• Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Intellectual, Answers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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