David Rakoff Quotes

If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

David Rakoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 27, 1964 - August 9, 2012

Topics

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My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Jesus Christ

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I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

John Mayer

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If you are planning to start a business, and if you want that business to have a hope of succeeding, be sure you are approaching your venture from a true Entrepreneurial Perspective.

Michael Gerber

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I tend to talk too much when I get nervous, and I'm sure many people can relate to that.

John Rampton

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You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

Stanley Donen

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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Michel de Montaigne

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It's not the easiest thing in the world to act with Harry - we are very close. I'm not saying it won't ever happen again but it's best to work with other people. There are no professional boundaries at which to stop when you act with a sibling.

Luke Treadaway

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To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

Julia Quinn

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My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!

Johnny Mathis

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Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

Clive Cussler

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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Philip K. Dick

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When I'm not shooting, I don't wear much makeup. I just moisturize and maybe put on a berry-colored balm on my lips and cheeks, and then mascara - that's it. My face and hair gets abused every single day, so I try take it easy on off days.

Priyanka Chopra

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