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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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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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.
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Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
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When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.
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We don’t break setups, or light a fire. We just point out to the foreman of that work center which job we would prefer he gets to next.
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I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'
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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.
