Lily Rabe Quotes

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

Lily Rabe

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Energy
  • Level
  • Waste

• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Sexuality
  • Biggest
  • Who

• I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Never
  • Will

• I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Way
  • End
  • Bubbles

• I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Always
  • Never
  • Boxes

• I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

  

  Becky G
  • World
  • Music
  • Family

• There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Actor
  • Role

• I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Down
  • Lucky
  • Getting Older

• Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • City
  • Like
  • Moscow

• I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Kids
  • inspirational

• If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fake

• It matters if people believe you or not.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • People
  • Believe

• The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as "the richest man in the world." That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

  

  Lily Rabe
  • Believe