Rachel Cusk Quotes

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

Rachel Cusk

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AngryMeWorldFeelPlaceSometimes

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.

Jeffrey Zeldman

ArtRightDirectorFailDifferent

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

LoveMarriageInsanityTemporary

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

Roy Romer

EducationWorldRestBackComparison

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

MyselfMeUncomfortablePersonLike

There are always opportunities one cannot pass up.

Martin Winterkorn

OpportunitiesAlwaysUpPassCannot

I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.

Loni Love

FearBeingBeing BrokeBrokeKidding

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

Joseph Brodsky

PoetryTyrannyWillPopulationMake

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Denzel Washington

SuccessTimeJobCollegeStartLong

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

Christiane Amanpour

CountryCrimeWhySomebodyMayhem

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Brian Eno

KindnessPeopleBelieveThinkBetter

I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.

Boy George

LovePeopleMeLove MeKnowKind

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Arthur Conan Doyle

TruthNothingMoreObviousFact

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