Rachel Cusk Quotes
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
