Rachel Platten Quotes
I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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He Quoyle did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
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Engvall is in an office elevator going up.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
