Rachael Taylor Quotes
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.
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Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
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There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
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Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.
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'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to what 'Chronicle' is. There's no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
