Rebecca De Mornay Quotes
I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
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I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.
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Mary Poppins herself had flown away, but the gifts she had brought would remain for always..
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When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
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I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.
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I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.
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I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
