Rachel Platten Quotes
'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I won't join another band again.
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Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
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If you have the ability to desire it, the Universe has the ability to deliver it. You've just got to line up with what you want, which means— be as happy as you can be as often as you can be there, and let everything else take care of itself.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
