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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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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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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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.
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He did not, and could not, understand the meaning of words apart from their context. Every word and action of his was the manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
