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" When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. "

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" A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it. "

Taylor Swift

School

People

Music

" My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time. "

" I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.' "

" For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you. "

" I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life. "

" We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. "

" And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me! "

Taylor Swift

Somebody

Being

" 'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up. "

" When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore. "

" I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them. "

" I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart. "

" One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same. "

" I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern. "

" Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me. "

" I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me. "

Taylor Swift

Trying

You

" I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it. "

" Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing. "

Taylor Swift

People

Alone

" When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. "

" I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write. "

" I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into. "

Taylor Swift

Love

Emotions

" Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. "

" My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem. "

" If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works. "

Taylor Swift

How

Write

" I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling. "

Taylor Swift

Love

Emotions

" I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic. "

" I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered. "

" People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me. "

Taylor Swift

Boy

You

" There are no rules when it comes to love. "

" I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues. "

" No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. "