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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The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.
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And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.
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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
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I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.
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All TV is now digital. It's a platform ripe for innovation; we just haven't seen any beyond picture quality changes. That's a secular problem.
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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.
