Rachel Cusk Quotes
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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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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We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
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I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.
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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.
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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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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.
