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Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter known for her narrative lyrics and diverse musical style. Since the release of her self-titled debut album in 2006, Swift has quickly become a leading figure in the global pop music scene. Her music blends elements of country, pop, and rock, winning her numerous awards and a dedicated fanbase.

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“Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.”

Way Needs Term Live Your Life Fixing Way To Live

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“I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.”

Needs Feels Courses Next Emotion Week Albums Worried The Next One

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“I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.”

Ifs Needs Feels Writing Kind Persons Reason Happens Guy Song Things Happen Horrible Worth It Everything Happens For A Reason Happens For A Reason

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“I don't need to edit names out of songs and I don't need to edit details out of my songs because I've always been able to be honest with my music. That's the one place where I'm never ever going to change how I do things.”

Needs Able Song Names Honest Details Being Honest Edits

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“Always consider giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game... And if it's a game, then you need to win.”

Ifs Needs Giving Games Winning Doubt Benefits Benefit Of The Doubt

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“All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”

Needs Friendship My Friends Like Me

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

Needs Opinion Share Respectful Be Respectful

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“I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!”

Ifs Needs Writing Kind Persons Happens Kids Hair Garden Raises Gray Bows Irrelevant Blonde

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“People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.”

People Needs Trying Process Forget Happened Missing Missing Someone Pining Forgetting Someone

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“I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.”

Needs Long Home House Watches Tvs Cat Checks Hotel Online Apartment Email Long Day

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“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.”

Knows Needs Writing Answers Knowing Happened Skins Obsession Bother

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“I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that.”

Thinking Want Needs Feels Play Happens Guy Like You Tape Not Interested

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“You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.”

Love Life Needs Eye Change Walks Relationship Beats

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“With your face and your beautiful eyes and the coversations with the little white lies and the faded picture of a beautiful lie you carry me from your car up the stairs,and I broke down crying was she worth this mess? After everything and that little black dress.After everything i must confess...I need you <3'':) -Taylor Swift”

Needs Littles Eye Beautiful Faces Lying Black White Car Cry Dresses Mess Broke Your Face Need You Stairs Faded I Need You Your Beautiful White Lie Beautiful Eyes Beautiful Lies

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“There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Feels Should Turns Speak Waiting Silence Know How How You Feel Speak Now

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“If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel like I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love, it’s a big deal and it’s a rare thing.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Different Bigs Fall Girl Loses Deals Constant Falling In Love Streams Big Deal That Girl Rare Things Need A Boyfriend

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“Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”

“When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.”

Thinking Knows Needs Felt Loses Passionate Intense Teenager Dramatic Retrospect

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“My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.”

Needs Feels Sometimes Hard Parent Raised Entitled

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“We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you’re either falling in love or losing it”

Thinking Needs Feelings Fall Losing Falling In Love Intense

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“You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship.”

Needs Able Happy With Yourself Being Happy With Yourself

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“For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.”

Thinking Way Needs Should Writing Littles Feelings Kids Female Insane Girlfriend Desperate Sexist Clingy

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“I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.”

Want Needs Song Sound Compilation

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“I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”

Needs Song My Friends Complicated Like Me Complication

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“I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Should Games Winning Walks Doubt Perspective Benefits Approach Tables Best Things Things To Do Benefit Of The Doubt

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“Being single is wonderful and I love it. I don't ever have a morning where I wake up and say, 'I really need to find a boyfriend today.'”

Needs Today Morning Wonderful Wake Up Being Single

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“My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you can use your energy for good? We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.”

People Needs Use Eye Hate Energy Parent Opinion Share Taught Color Judging Waste Skins Miserable Comment Hateful Respectful Be Respectful

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“Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.”

Thinking Needs Should Simple Love Is

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“I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life.”

Needs Feels Happened Sparks Unexplainable

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“I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.”

Needs Feels Shows Inspiration Wanted Guy Order Records Fans Okay Feminist Womanhood Living My Life

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“When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.”

Needs Running Young

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“There's no regimen. There's no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it's an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don't necessarily like being at the gym.”

Ifs Needs Running Night Gains Gym Hiking Trainers Stamina Treadmills

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“When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.”

Needs Feels Writing Song Fall Boys Yeah Falling In Love Very Happy

Author:Taylor Swift

About the Author

Born: December 13, 1989
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 977

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