Rachel Holmes Quotes
When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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We saw that the music industry was changing and we felt that it needed to change. We have wanted to do this for a very long time.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.
