Rachel Sklar Quotes
I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.
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I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
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Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
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To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's happening all at once as the world's capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone's door anymore. And we don't have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We'll be Greece before these D.C. politicians' false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.
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Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
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I never dreamt of the Olympics growing up. It's not something that I watched on TV; it's not something my parents ever talked about.
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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
