Rachel Cusk
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RACHEL ZOE RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL DRATCH I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no wa... RACHEL SKLAR I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic. RACHEL ZOE It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can&#... RACHEL ZOE As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend ... RACHEL ZOE The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real ... RACHEL ZOE I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers. RACHEL ZOE People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind. RACHEL ZOE I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we ... RACHEL ZOE As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown bra... RACHEL ZOE The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sap... RACHEL ZOE Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much... RACHEL ZOE I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the ... RACHEL ZOE When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb... RACHEL ZOE I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties. RACHEL ZOE I think people should look cute all the time. RACHEL ZOE I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is... RACHEL ZOE Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulde... RACHEL ZOE I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats. RACHEL ZOE I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't h... RACHEL ZOE I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is. RACHEL ZOE Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life. RACHEL ZOE I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know. RACHEL WEISZ The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity. RACHEL WEISZ That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as ... RACHEL WEISZ L.A. makes you feel ugly. RACHEL WEISZ It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri... RACHEL WEISZ In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Eve... RACHEL WEISZ If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like th... RACHEL WEISZ I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people w... RACHEL WEISZ I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible. RACHEL WEISZ I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by th... RACHEL WEISZ I find Hollywood really toxic. RACHEL WEISZ I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what... RACHEL WEISZ You have your real life and then you have your work. RACHEL WEISZ I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... RACHEL WEISZ The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite ... RACHEL WEISZ It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same ... RACHEL WEISZ My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive aro... RACHEL WEISZ Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; wh... RACHEL WEISZ There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in peop... RACHEL WEISZ The older you get the more capable you get at managing life. RACHEL WEISZ As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've ne... RACHEL WEISZ I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in t... RACHEL WEISZ I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs. RACHEL WEISZ You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say th... RACHEL WEISZ People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one t... RACHEL WEISZ I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer. RACHEL WEISZ Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process. RACHEL WARD I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually... RACHEL WARD I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ... RACHEL WARD When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became. RACHEL WARD All anything takes, really, is confidence. RACHEL WARD There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not li... RACHEL WARD Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and ch... RACHEL WARD You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fan... RACHEL WARD I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque po... RACHEL WARD It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ... RACHEL TUCKER When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as ... RACHEL TUCKER 'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the R... RACHEL TUCKER We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens bla... RACHEL TUCKER Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and ... RACHEL TUCKER I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take mysel... RACHEL TUCKER If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't thi... RACHEL TUCKER I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the pr... RACHEL TUCKER I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at h... RACHEL TUCKER I can be very ordinary looking. RACHEL TUCKER I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'L... RACHEL TUCKER We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame Ma... RACHEL TUCKER It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And... RACHEL TUCKER When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and Wh... RACHEL TUCKER Sting is a father figure to us all. RACHEL TUCKER I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years ... RACHEL TUCKER My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric ... RACHEL TUCKER 'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young me... RACHEL TUCKER Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green. RACHEL TUCKER I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy i... RACHEL TUCKER As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just ... RACHEL TRUE Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury... RACHEL TRUE So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is... RACHEL TRUE If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your r... RACHEL TRUE When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's go... RACHEL TRUE Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology. RACHEL TRUE For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not a... RACHEL TRUE I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead. RACHEL TRUE Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously... RACHEL TRUE And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And i... RACHEL TRUE In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls ge... RACHEL TRUE I don't think I'm a follower, frankly. RACHEL TRUE Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I ... RACHEL TRUE We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed ... RACHEL TRUE Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that wo... RACHEL TRUE I like to make collages - paper collages. RACHEL TRUE My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewr... RACHEL TICOTIN If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the mo... RACHEL TICOTIN I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy ... RACHEL TICOTIN RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paychec... RACHEL SKLAR I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to so... RACHEL SKLAR As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than ei... RACHEL SKLAR I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket ... RACHEL SKLAR 'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not... RACHEL SKLAR For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally de... RACHEL SKLAR 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but becau... RACHEL SKLAR There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them... RACHEL SKLAR Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not p... RACHEL SKLAR My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I ... RACHEL SKLAR Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life. RACHEL SKLAR I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, th... RACHEL SKLAR I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in. RACHEL SKLAR While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also ... RACHEL SKLAR Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good. RACHEL SKLAR Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water i... RACHEL SKLAR In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, ... RACHEL SKLAR When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I a... RACHEL SKLAR We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us,... RACHEL SKLAR I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Comm... RACHEL SKLAR The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness... RACHEL SKLAR Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sue... RACHEL SKLAR Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do. RACHEL SKLAR I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to ... RACHEL SKARSTEN Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history. RACHEL SKARSTEN The special thing about 'Lost Girl' is it can be campy at times, but the show doesn't ta... RACHEL SKARSTEN Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a comp... RACHEL SKARSTEN I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same ... RACHEL SKARSTEN I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a jo... RACHEL SKARSTEN While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do. RACHEL SKARSTEN There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces. RACHEL SHELLEY I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to,... RACHEL SHELLEY I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now. RACHEL SHELLEY Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the... RACHEL SHELLEY We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind. RACHEL SHELLEY I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need. RACHEL SHELLEY I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. I... RACHEL SHELLEY
It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to ... 
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my lif... 
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my... 
I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting ... 
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew t... 
I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Ear... 
I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force... 
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an ... 
I think it's Rachel starting to show what Rachel can do. Rachel's a very quiet kid who I think has a... 
You never really leave a place or person you love, part of them you take with you ,leaving a part of... 
I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to m... 
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away.... 
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious... 
I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea... 
I still feel like I've got a lot of great football in front of me and the way that I've take... 
After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile ... 
The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt d... 
I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in ter... 
When I look back at my career and my life and how much I have learnt, I feel blessed with what I hav... 
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, wh... 
I definitely wanted to leave "Saturday Night Live" at a time when I still enjoyed doing the show. I ... 
I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a ... 
I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... al... 
When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind. 
My life is a struggle. 
I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... 
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my o... 
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture... 
That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I ... 
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to l... 
I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all wr... 
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. 
I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easi... 
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. 
I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that... 
I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden sh... 
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ... 
they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... 
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anythi... 
My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age.... 
I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be ... 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
Hodor," said Hodor. 
I turned.
My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then... 
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to televisi... 
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back. 
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal tha... 
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew... 
I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not. 
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think ... 
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely. 
Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.