Rachel Sklar Quotes
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
-
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
-
We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
-
Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
-
I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
-
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
-
I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
-
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
-
I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
-
You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
-
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
-
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
-
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
-
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
-
Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
-
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
-
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
-
It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
-
I like to know who I'm working with, and it's important because they've got to be able to bring something to the party.
-
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
-
I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.
-
When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.
-
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
-
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
