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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You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.
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One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
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One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.
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Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.
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Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
