Rachel Cohn Quotes
I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were through. That's the way I was raised. So, I got to be about 13 years of age when finally she quit spanking on me. But I think that it was great way to be raised.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.
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I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.
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Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
