Rachel Cusk Quotes
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
