Rachel Joyce Quotes
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
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It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.
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The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.
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I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
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I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
