Rachel Roberts Quotes
It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
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If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
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I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.
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A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.
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When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
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It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
