Ted Rall Quotes
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have.
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One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.
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I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane.
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Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.
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For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.
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I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.
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...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.
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I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.
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Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
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As the Chinese grew in numbers, the immigrant population grew to the extent that it became a huge economic threat, there were efforts among white workers to organize among themselves politically, and what was unfortunate was that both major parties adopted anti-Chinese platforms.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
