Rachel Caine Quotes
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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We are worried about pressure being put on inspectors by certain circles in Washington
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When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
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I had sadness for breakfast.
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A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.
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Rambo was a Green Beret," Hannah said. "Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast.
