Rachael Yamagata Quotes
What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
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Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.
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If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.
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What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.
