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Rachel Johnson Quotes

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: September 3, 1965

Topics

Women Power Men Run See Get

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.

Great Growing Up Thought Doing Now

I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

Music Anything Than Other

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Sonia Sotomayor

Knowledge Limits Understanding Year

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

Funny Mirror People World Think

I felt so unbelievably ugly for years.

Ugly Years Felt Unbelievably

While writing 'The Orientalist,' I played a soundtrack that alternated between ragtime and Azeri mugams, Russian operas and German and Italian pop songs from the 1920s and 30s. When I finally finished, I gorged on all my music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

Music Writing 1920s Pop Finished

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

Love Good Book Find Soldier Her

Whatever happens, I'll just keep moving forward. Like an avalanche.

Moving Forward Moving Forward Keep

I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.

Good Women Water Men Job People

It's so hard to listen to an album you created and without remembering where you were when you wrote it or referencing the the recording experience.

Experience You Listen Hard Without

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

Human Human Beings Lover Dickens

I am very lucky that I came from a stable home, but I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life until acting sorted of landed in my lap when I was in my 20s. Acting, to me, was a bit like the ladder I used to climb out of feeling lost.

Life Home I Am Me Climb My Life

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