Rachel McAdams Quotes
I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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Love is a state of being.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
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I've had losses in my career before, and I've always come back stronger from those losses.
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What comes through my head is going to come out of my mouth.
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Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
