Rachel Cusk Quotes
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I really like Neutrogena for skin care and CoverGirl makeup. I can't stand heavy makeup. I feel like my skin can't breathe, and CoverGirl is really light.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?
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I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.
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I want to write more and direct more, but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the projects that really interest me.
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I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.
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Almost everyone stops being an artist. Most artists don't become artists. But that's another discussion. What it takes to be an artist.
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The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.