Rachel Cusk Quotes
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it’s Outsiders.
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Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.
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I work out with a trainer five days a week.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
