Rachel Cusk Quotes

I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

Rachel Cusk

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LifeChildMeConnectionsNo Sense

Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

Jessica Brown Findlay

BestGoThreeLuckyStageGot

For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China.

Jennifer Dunn

NationStatusActChinaMustMost

With the national team, we have these fans, people love of us, people come up to us in our cities, and they're like, 'We love you - what are you doing in Seattle?' And I'm like, 'I live here, and I've played here for the last five years.'

Megan Rapinoe

LoveLivePeopleTeamDoingYou

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Maury Yeston

TogetherAmericanYouPerfectAlways

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

Anita Baker

FuneralUsedPaidGetSingFamilies

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

John Ruskin

DoingSeeingWayThingsWholeOnly

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Amy Tan

GoodArtMyselfWritingAesthetic

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

Alvar Aalto

LifeStyleArchitectureTrueVariety

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

Stanley Kubrick

YourselfCrazyThinkYouSometimes

I've learned to compensate for my small size.

Louisa Hall

SmallSizeLearnedCompensate

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

Joyce Cary

NatureGodCharacterUniverseBecome

Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.

Janine di Giovanni

StressBeginningWarThinkAlways

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