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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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.