Rachel DeWoskin Quotes
It's funny how even when the sky falls around us, people still have to make pancakes.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
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I am such a political person.
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There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
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The best part about poker is there's no down side.
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I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.
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The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
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We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.
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I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.
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It's funny how even when the sky falls around us, people still have to make pancakes.
