Rachel Shenton Quotes
It's really important to remember that disability is diversity, and that disabled actors and disabilities are something that is hugely under-represented in film.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.
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Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act.
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When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
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An impressive thing about India is the way in which it has almost as many Muslim citizens, who live with greater prospects of peace and prosperity, as does Pakistan. This comity and integration is one of the many targets of the suicide killers, and it is another reason why firm, warm solidarity with India is the most pressing need of the present hour.
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Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
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I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
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Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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It's really important to remember that disability is diversity, and that disabled actors and disabilities are something that is hugely under-represented in film.
