Rachel Stevens Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
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Keep ramping up your level of joy every day. There is no limit to the levels of joy you can reach. You will see change to the degree of joy that you can attain and maintain. The higher the joy you can create within you, the more spectacular the change, and the higher the joy, the faster the change. Your emanation of joy attracts more Joy. The law of attraction will continually send you more feelings of joy!
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.
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I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
