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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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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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
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He's the best practitioner I've ever seen of the Cuban style. But I think that what Rigondeaux sees as an immaculate performance has no corollary to what fans see as a perfect performance. In his mind, to make an opponent look terrible who has been lauded as exciting or favored against him gives him satisfaction.
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Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.
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When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get starstruck over. I don't know what I'd do if I met him - I'd be in shock! That's my dream.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
