Rachel Holmes Quotes
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.
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Beauty comes in all forms. It's not just external; it's internal as well.
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God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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There are two kinds of games in economics. One is the game where people use only legal moves. Then there is the true game, the one like real life, where the strategies and moves people make, some of them contain illegal gains.
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A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.
