Rachel Keller Quotes
Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
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The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
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It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.
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Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
