David Rakoff Quotes
My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
Quotes to Explore
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.
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So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.
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Four times I looked for psychiatric help, and each time I arrived at the inescapable conclusion that the psychiatrist was crazier than I was.
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I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
