Rachel Platten Quotes
I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.
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I always felt an outsider.
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
