Rachel Platten Quotes
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
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People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
