Rachel Tucker Quotes
I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.
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I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.
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One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
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I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.
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We don't understand the equity market well, and so we deploy funds in fixed-income securities, and like any other securities, investment in those securities also need to follow the mark-to-market accounting principle.
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I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
