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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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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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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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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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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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!
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If we wait for the world’s permission to shine, we will never receive it. The ego doesn’t give that permission. Only God does, and He has already done so. He has sent you here as His personal representative and is asking you to channel His love into the world. Are you waiting for a more important job? There isn’t one.
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I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.
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I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.
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In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of Western culture is in the centuries when Christianism was dominant and was present in almost all works of art - not only liturgical works, but also literature and music. Yes, it's important to have that in our present. It doesn't mean that people have to adhere to a dogma or practice a religion, but it's part of our heritage, and you have to at least try to understand it. Otherwise you can't be a modern person.
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Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.
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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.
