Rachel Tucker Quotes
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
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I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.
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As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.
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Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.
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I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!