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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A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.
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I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!
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I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
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But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.
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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.
