Rebecca Loos Quotes
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
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My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Everything in food works together to create health or disease.
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I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
