Rachel Cohn Quotes
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid.
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Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.
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It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life.
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Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.
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I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
