Rachel Ward Quotes
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I write, in the way I hear chords. A lot of times, I think of my songs as a symphony made out of electronics rather than instruments. And I love to do orchestral arrangements of my songs after they're done.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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What tends to happen when people talk about Chinese sci-fi in the West is that there's a lot of projection. We prefer to think of China as a dystopian world that is challenging American hegemony, so we would like to think that Chinese sci-fi is all either militaristic or dystopian. But that's just not the reality of it.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
