Lily Rabe Quotes
I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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I would rather wait and keep working on myself harder and wait for the right opportunity. It is not quantity but quality I should be remembered for.
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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.
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My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.
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I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.
