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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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!
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I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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Your eyes, your eyes They tell me how much you care Ooh yes, you will always be My endless love.
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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.
