Rachel Joyce Quotes
I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.
Quotes to Explore
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
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I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
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When something resonates with you, working for it seems more like play.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.
