Lily Rabe Quotes
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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You need a spiritual foundation. Something that allows you to see how you connect to the rest of the universe. It's simple stuff, but it's hard.
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As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
