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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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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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.
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When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path
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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.
