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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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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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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The weirdest place someone has asked me for advice was at a party where there were a lot of A-list celebrities and super-wealthy people. There were people in the middle of mingling asking for investment advice, and I'm like, 'Hey, I'm just here to dance. I'm here to have fun!'
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The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.
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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusionism that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.
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I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.
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What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.
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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!
