Rachel Cusk Quotes
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
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There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.
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When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off the air, I was 28 years old, married with two kids. At that point I felt I really wanted to be mommy to my children. But I found that after a year and a half, I really missed the part of myself that was an actress.
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Everybody around me was talented and gave everybody talent. Everybody painted. My mother had a beautiful voice. My father was a marvelous drawing-room actor.
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
