Rachel DeWoskin Quotes
That's the thing about me. I prefer things once they're already over and I'm working on understanding them. I wish I were faster at that - like, I could understand things while they're happening - but I always have to read the whole book and write the entire paper before I even know what the hell I'm thinking.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I really hate to write.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.
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You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.
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The thing I was up against in documentary films - was trying to get non-actors to convincingly play themselves in a way I'd come to know before the camera started rolling. And many non-actors can't do that convincingly, even if they just have to play themselves - they can't be naturalistic. And I would always want to recreate something I'd witnessed them do or say, and it just would be incredibly difficult because of the fact they weren't actors.
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That's the thing about me. I prefer things once they're already over and I'm working on understanding them. I wish I were faster at that - like, I could understand things while they're happening - but I always have to read the whole book and write the entire paper before I even know what the hell I'm thinking.
