Rachel Cusk Quotes
The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
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The only person I really believe in is me.
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Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
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The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
