Rachael Yamagata Quotes
Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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I care deeply about the direction of our country.
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I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.
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I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.
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Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.
