Rachel Cusk Quotes
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
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You know, the 'Atomic Blonde' universe is its own universe. There's influences obviously of Bond and Bourne and 'Wick,' all the things I've been exposed to, but it is its own universe.
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.
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Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
