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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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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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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If you don't ask, you don't get.
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I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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The precondition to freedom is security.
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It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.
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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.
