Sarah Rafferty Quotes
What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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America's a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our motto is, 'In God We Trust.' This isn't something that divides; this is something that pulls together and lifts us up.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.
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One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
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What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.
