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" I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats. "
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Cats
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" It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution. "
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" I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project. "
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" You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up. "
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" Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work. "
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" Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love. "
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" We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books. "
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Experience
God
" I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers. "
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College
Time
Working
" There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world. "
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World
People
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" Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity. "
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Universe
Opportunity
Luck
" When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down. "
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" I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles. "
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Hollywood
Los Angeles
" You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these. "
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Struggle
You
Value
" I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet. "
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Bouquet
Wedding
White
" Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot. "
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You
Confidence
People
" I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one. "
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Believe
Am
Love
" I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution. "
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Lost
Days
Whole
" Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans. "
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Want
" I don't think I'm capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea. "
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Tea
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" Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt. "
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Picture
Husband
Night
" Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much. "
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Beyond
You
Life
" I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston. "
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Boston
School
High School
" I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future. "
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Future
Small
Been
" I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each. "
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" Life is too short to be on a diet. "
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Diet
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" I love reading books that can break my heart. "
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" I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds. "
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Thought
Good
" I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book. "
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Book
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Two
" As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way. "
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Brain
Own
Ideas
" I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would. "
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Done
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" You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor. "
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Without