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Rachel Cusk Quotes

I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: February 8, 1967

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Time People Me Writing Think You

I have dogs, and I hike.

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

Football Amazing Me Think Career

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.

Vision Eyes Simple Development More

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

Mercedes McCambridge

I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.

People Stand Up Speak Stand Three

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Mother Child Think Twice Her Once

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Shirley Williams

Doing Nothing Anything Greater Does

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Life Learning Die You Stop About

I subscribe to the slow nickel theory. You take a little bit at a time. You always make better of what you have when you don't have best.

Russell Hornsby

Time Best Slow Better You Always

I think the first time 'white' was used was in the 1600s. Generally, we were described by where we came from... All of a sudden, this word 'white' came through, and now everyone is going for their own sense of power... to figure out who's on top.

Dennis Haysbert

Power Time Think White Now Top

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Work Hope World Black Place Desire

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

Focus Control Long Attention You

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