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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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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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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I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I've to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and would have guidance systems so that they actually drove themselves. Specially equipped roadways would transmit instructions to the cars, telling them where to go and how fast. I figured this would be in the lines painted on the roads.
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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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To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.
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'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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For the last decade, the last 50 years, Barcelona dominate football matches. I love the way they play.
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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.
