Rachael Yamagata Quotes
I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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You have to control things, especially with the social media, because once it's out there, it's out there. And that becomes the fact.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
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I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.
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It's an amazing feeling when I have a customer who tries a leg on and is able to go snowboarding for the first time.
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I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.