Raquel Zimmermann Quotes
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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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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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
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Good material is good material.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
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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'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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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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You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
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Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
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I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
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That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.
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I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.
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I had no plans to be a director.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
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I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.
