Rachel Sklar Quotes
For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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'This Means War' is up there with 'Hail to the King' in terms of crowd reaction and kids chanting for it.
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Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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There's an obvious marketing component to doing something digitally where you're reaching out to new readers that you can't do in the existing print marketplace, or that it's difficult to do in the existing print marketplace.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
