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 am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.
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All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.
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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
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De poetas no digo: buen siglo es éste. Muchos están en ciernes para el año que viene; pero ninguno hay tan malo como Cervantes ni tan necio que alabe a don Quijote.
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All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them
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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.
