Rachel McAdams Quotes
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
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A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.
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It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.
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I've never been big into self-promotion. It's awkward for me. Just seeing my name on a T-shirt freaks me out.
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I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.
