Rachel Cusk Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.
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Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
