Rachel Cusk Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.
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Flash content is the most prolific content on the web today; it is the way people express themselves on the Internet.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.
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President Trump should tell the Senate, 'No more admissions to NATO, no more U.S. war guarantees, unless I have recommended or approved them.' Foreign policy is made in the White House, not on the Senate floor.
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' workers then have a strong stake in the preservation of the very system that exploits them because the destruction of that system entails the destruction of their savings.'
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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.
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Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
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Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
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Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
