Rachael Taylor Quotes
Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
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Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
