Rebecca Traister Quotes
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway.
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I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
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I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.
