Rachel Dratch Quotes
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
Quotes to Explore
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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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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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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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Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
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I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
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I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
