Rachel Cusk Quotes

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Night

• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Think
  • Dance
  • Audience

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • You
  • Years
  • Process

• We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Job
  • Lost
  • Travel

• Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Emotional
  • Baby
  • Parenting

• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Day
  • Fashion

• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Baby

• Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Process

• Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Respect

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Real
  • Done
  • Movie

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
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• The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I don't want my children to ever think that food is taboo.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Children
  • Want
  • Food

• The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

  

  Mary McCarthy
  • American
  • America

• I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Time
  • Childhood

• Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

  

  Arno Penzias
  • Life
  • Science
  • Support

• It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Pretty
  • Baby
  • Process