Rachel Van Dyken quote: "The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?"

How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Forgiveness is never given in order to make peace with the offender. It’s given to make peace with...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

I could never hate you as much as I love you.
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Had I known that any contact from this beautiful stranger would forever change me – would mark me ...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

In the morning things will look better? Is that what else you were going to say?”
… “Thin...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Your heart is everything. Why else would God ask for it first? I mean, why not ask for your mind? Yo...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

I love your eyes. But I love mine more.'Cause without them, I won't see yours.
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Maybe it's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos.
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Sometimes I wonder if we ever truly let anyone completely in. The desire for another human being to ...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

For as long as it takes for the sorrow and pain to transfer into acceptance. I’ll stay here. With ...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

the nurse smiled and patted my arm. “Don’t give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written ...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I w...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

All that damn therapy you made me go through — and sometimes, Dad, it takes going through hell to ...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead.
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

What do you love more?” she teased. “My hair or my heart?” “Why give me only two choices? Do...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we gi...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Watching someone you love go through difficult times is like being trapped in your own body but para...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

God…” I choked on the word. “I know we haven’t talked much in the past few years. Hell, I to...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

It’s funny isn’t it? People claim to know what love is — yet the minute they’re given the op...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would ...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Life isn’t about deserving.” I closed my eyes and sighed. “Aren’t you the one always spoutin...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Midnight's the only time where you can be both in the past, present, and future.
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

Everyone wears masks.They come in all different shapes and sizes.The only problem with trying one on...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ide...
RACHEL TRUE

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The s...
RACHEL BLOOM

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time w...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
RACHEL ZOE

If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, &#...
RACHEL ZOE

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
RACHEL STEVENS

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think ...
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

Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
RACHEL STEVENS

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
RACHEL STEVENS

I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
RACHEL STEVENS

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
RACHEL STEVENS

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
RACHEL STEVENS

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense ...
RACHEL STEVENS

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
RACHEL STEVENS

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's g...
RACHEL STEVENS

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now...
RACHEL STEVENS

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
RACHEL STEVENS

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
RACHEL STEVENS

It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
RACHEL STEVENS

Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
RACHEL STEVENS

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
RACHEL STEVENS

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games...
RACHEL STEVENS

When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know...
RACHEL STEVENS

I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
RACHEL STEVENS

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
RACHEL STEVENS

I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for...
RACHEL STEVENS

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopul...
RACHEL STEVENS

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in...
RACHEL STEVENS

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
RACHEL STEVENS

Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
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

Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
RACHEL SHELLEY

I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
RACHEL ROY

I have always admired the way women put outfits together.
RACHEL ROY

I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
RACHEL ROY

I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confid...
RACHEL ROY

I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows th...
RACHEL ROY

If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to fe...
RACHEL ROY

I believe clothing tell a story.
RACHEL ROY

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings...
RACHEL ROY

You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't f...
RACHEL ROY

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and lo...
RACHEL ROY

I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really w...
RACHEL ROY

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds...
RACHEL ROY

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
RACHEL ROY

I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one t...
RACHEL ROY

The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?

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The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?

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