Rachel Cusk Quotes
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.
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And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!
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You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.
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If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
