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
-
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
-
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.
-
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
-
The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.
-
At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
-
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.
-
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
-
Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
-
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.
-
I believe women are the glue of everything.
-
To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
-
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.
-
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
-
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
-
Enjoy every sandwich.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.
-
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.
-
A lot of people are scared. It's the way you're raised. The way you've been told your whole life, that you've got to do this and that. Get a job, go to school. So, a lot of people are scared to just do what they really want. They're worried about what people will think and stuff like that. It's just fear.
-
Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.
-
My parents have been with me every step of the way.
-
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
