Rachel Cusk Quotes
I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks.
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The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.
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The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.
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Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
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I want the seals of power and place, The ensigns of command, Charged by the people's unbought grace, To rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask But from my country's will, By day, by night, to ply the task Her cup of bliss to fill.
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I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.
