Rachel Platten Quotes
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.
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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
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Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.
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Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
