Emily Raboteau Quotes

I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.

Emily Raboteau

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• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Eyes
  • Design

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Practice

• I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Love
  • Creative
  • Partnerships

• What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Great
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Help
  • Problems

• The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Character
  • Prince
  • Hamlet

• I began to understand. 'A Faustian bargain...,' I said.'The Faustian bargain,' said the girl. 'All the church had to do to gain the universe was sell its soul.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Soul
  • Girl
  • Church

• The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Moving
  • Door

• I think China is in a chaos now and it could be more chaos. It’s an orderly chaos. It’s a party that ruthlessly violates every human’s basic rights to serve its own purpose.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Party
  • Purpose
  • Chaos

• The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

  

  Jim Finks
  • Guy
  • Sports

• Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Fall

• My best beauty secret ever is to drink a lot of water!

  

  Anna Ewers
  • Water

• I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • Hate

• We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.

  

  Bo Derek
  • Good
  • Different
  • Today

• Of course for your main rivals, you're going to get extra motivated for it, particularly if you haven't played him for a long time.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Time
  • Long
  • Motivated

• An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

  

  James Dean
  • Life

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
  • House

• I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Know
  • Person
  • Saying

• Chin up, shoulders back. Let ‘em know you’re here. #ProudOfWhoYouAre

  

  Ian Bohen
  • Up

• I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Nature
  • Actor
  • Mirror

• My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

  

  Lincoln Child
  • Writing
  • Job
  • House

• I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.

  

  Emily Raboteau
  • Acceptance
  • Rejection
  • Seek