Rebecca Wells Quotes
I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.
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Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.
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Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
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In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.
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In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
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It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.
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Gerald is the eternal optimist who has what could be perceived as a handicap -he can't speak - but he figures out clever ways to communicate ideas so he doesn't let it stop him. He goes through life with rose-colored glasses and doesn't think 'I can't.' I think that's a great character to put out there for kids.
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Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
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I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.
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Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.
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I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
