Lily Rabe Quotes

#1. You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

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#2. When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.

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#3. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

Charles Duhigg

#4. So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

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#5. The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

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#6. Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

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#7. Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

Jonathan Edwards

#8. I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Joel Osteen

#9. I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

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#10. Before I ever start a job that I'm really excited about, I usually have some sleepless nights or weeks or months. But that anticipation for a person like me ... I don't do so well with a lot of time off.

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#11. Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive.

Stewart Butterfield

#12. Mark Conseulos is so amazing.

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#13. All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

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#14. To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

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#15. It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

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#16. No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.

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#17. I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.

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#18. I've been the victim a lot, so I've often played the person who's getting raped or murdered or abused. And so, to actually be raping and murdering and abusing people is a whole different kind of challenge, and one that was very difficult, at times.

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#19. It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.

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#20. Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

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#21. I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

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#22. When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Ruud Gullit

#23. For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

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#24. One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.

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#25. In case nobody has told you," she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else
where everybody learns to make his or her own way.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. The only thing that matters is the theater!

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#27. I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

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#28. Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

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#29. Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.

Ricky Gervais

#30. Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

Amah Lambert

#31. I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.'

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#32. I really like when I read a scene and it scares me. That makes me excited.

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#33. I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

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#34. As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.

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#35. When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

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