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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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
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I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that 'technically true' is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than 'technically' true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference.
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I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.
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If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.
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There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.