Rachel Riley Quotes
I didn't realise until I did CBT that I was a perfectionist. Whenever you do anything, there are always going to be things that go wrong, it's never going to be 100 per cent perfect. Because of how I was, I'd focus on those bits and always see the negative in anything.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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Good material is good material.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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The past, she knew, is inviolable, one of the few things in life that cannot be marred by present foolishness, and in it the present may find its peace.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.
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I didn't realise until I did CBT that I was a perfectionist. Whenever you do anything, there are always going to be things that go wrong, it's never going to be 100 per cent perfect. Because of how I was, I'd focus on those bits and always see the negative in anything.
