Rachel Cusk Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
