Rachel Stevens Quotes
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
