Rachele Brooke Smith Quotes
I worked so hard to be so versatile in so many different things. There’s just not a lot of girls who can do ballet and flips and break dance and crazy hip-hop moves. So I would really encourage young dancers and actors to work to be as versatile as possible.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.
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I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
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It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.
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I never went through an easy fight. Every fight has been hard fought.
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You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.
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I worked so hard to be so versatile in so many different things. There’s just not a lot of girls who can do ballet and flips and break dance and crazy hip-hop moves. So I would really encourage young dancers and actors to work to be as versatile as possible.
