Rachel Perry Quotes
I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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My father was a lawyer.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.
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I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.
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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
