Rachel Cusk Quotes
The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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You look marvelous!
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
