Rachel Johnson Quotes
I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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I love to push myself.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.
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Parents, family, and friends tell you that you can be whatever you want to be. But what they really mean is whatever you want as long as it fits in their neat, little box. And for a woman exercising her command, that box is restrictive as hell. Destroy that box and the horse it rode in on. Light it on fire for good measure. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
