Rachel Sklar Quotes
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Honesty will never break you.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
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I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
