Rebecca Serle Quotes

At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.

Rebecca Serle

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I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

Joanna Coles

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Music is important.

Jessi Colter

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I can't allow myself to censor myself.

John Grant

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I got my first real job, one that didn't involve wearing a hairnet or bending over the hood of a wet car with a towel in my hand, in the early '90s working for CBS Records. While there, I started my first of several rock bands and eventually wrote my first book, the semi-autobiographical novel, 'Don't Sleep With Your Drummer.'

Jen Sincero

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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

Amin Maalouf

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Writing gives me the license to go, explore, and learn about the world.

Amitava Kumar

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My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

Amity Gaige

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Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.

Shreya Ghoshal

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In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

Ronnie Musgrove

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Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Rush Limbaugh

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As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.

Deborah Harkness

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If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Christian Slater

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