Rachel Boston Quotes
Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.
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It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page.
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Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.
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Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.
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Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.
