Rachel Cusk Quotes
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
