Rachel Cohn Quotes
Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.
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Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.
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I'm an actor; I hire out.
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I think one of the things if you look at minimalism or expressionism, there's various movements in modern composition that I think you can see really natural relations in pop music, so I mean I always look to that in pop music.
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Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.
