Rachel Cusk Quotes
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
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Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.
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I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
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Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
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The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
