Rachael Taylor Quotes
I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'
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Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
