Rachel Platten Quotes
My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
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I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I'm in.
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As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.
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I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.
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I've always been incredibly crazy about the fact that I'd have any fans at all. It says to me that the characters that I choose are interesting to people and that's thrilling to me. It really is.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
