Cyril Cusack 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 usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I've never been a partier.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
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There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
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I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...
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The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.
