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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Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.
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The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
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In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.
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Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
