David Rakoff Quotes
At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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I've never been a partier.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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That's the Apple I want - I want an Apple that's bold and taking risks and being aggressive.
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The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'
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A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.
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At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.
