Rachel Cusk Quotes
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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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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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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
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Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
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I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
