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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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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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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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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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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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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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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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
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I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
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The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.
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After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
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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.
