Lily Rabe Quotes
For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.
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The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.
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The business I’ve found myself in for my adult life, it requires a certain amount of stereotyping. It’s just the nature of the beast. You have a limited amount of time to tell a story; in particular on camera. So you want the visual information there to provide a certain amount of background. People that look a certain way are cast in certain roles.
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I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
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If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
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For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.
