Quotes
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Rachael Taylor

"The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you."

Source : "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

Rachael Taylor

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“Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.”
“I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.”
“I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.”
“If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.”

Source : "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.
“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
“Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.”
“When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
“Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.”

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