Rachel Platten Quotes
I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.
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I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'
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For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
