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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Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
