Rebecca Traister Quotes
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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Actor's life is very long.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
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My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.
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I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.
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In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
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I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.
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I always want to do the best I can.
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I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.
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The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.
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Work is important, no doubt, but one can end up neglecting family and friends in the bargain. So I have resolved not to let that happen and maintain work-life balance by taking time out for the people who matter the most to me.
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
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As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
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Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of the feminist universe for women who might never have encountered contemporary feminism.
