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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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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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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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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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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The problem with the whole issue is that both sides need to be accommodated. There does need to be better border security for national security purposes, but in my view you cannot have better border security until you deal with the problem of finding a way for people to immigrate legally. People are not crossing the border risking life and limb to do so because they're too lazy to go down to the visa office and apply legally.
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Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.
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Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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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.
