Rachel Dratch Quotes
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.
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The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
