Rachel Cusk Quotes
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
Quotes to Explore
-
I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
-
Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
-
The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
-
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
-
I am an Indian to the core.
-
I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
-
If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
-
Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
-
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
-
I don't believe in miracles.
-
I love parties. I love a good time.
-
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
-
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
-
The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
-
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
-
My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
-
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
-
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
-
You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.
-
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
-
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
-
It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
-
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise
-
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
