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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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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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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I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.
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The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.
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Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.
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The fact that my mother's life was cut short is something that pushes me to always move forward and live the best life I possibly can. In a way, I feel like I can take her along with me through every experience, and in that sense, her beautiful energy and spirit will live on.
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Elections are the only way civilized countries can express themselves.
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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.
