Rachel Ticotin Quotes
If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.
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Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
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If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
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You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
