Rachel Tucker Quotes
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
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Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
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For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
