Rachel Cusk Quotes
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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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 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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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Sometimes the biggest statements you can make are by living something out.
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Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
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When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
