Rachel Cusk Quotes

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Rachel Cusk

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ChildhoodCuriosityEndingPotent

I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.

Jerry Saltz

LifeBalanceHappyEnergyFeelYou

My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'

John Cameron Mitchell

SuccessPeopleNobodySayFirst

Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'

John Mellencamp

MusicGreatCultureGrowing UpOkay

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

Stockwell Day

PastGovernmentEngineeringLand

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

Simon Sinek

PeopleBrainThinkInterestedMost

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.

Tracey Ullman

PoliticalGetOffPerformersPut

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

Molly Ivins

LifeMoneyPoliticsPlayPaperYour

When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me.

Lou Barlow

MeWritingWeirdUniquePlayThree

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

Joyce DeWitt

LiveTogetherWritingNightSaturday

This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

Josh Hamilton

LifeFeelEnoughYouSometimesMail

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Dean Koontz

FearWritingTalkingDesireNever

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

Deana Carter

ParentsYesOurWaysLotMimic

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