Rachel Skarsten Quotes
Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.
