Rachel Cohn Quotes
In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.
Quotes to Explore
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities.
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Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
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One of the things I have been arguing about - and slowly they maybe coming around - is tjat I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.
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My first husband dragged me out of London and made me live in the suburbs in Surrey - not where you want to be when you're 23.
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Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.
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In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.
