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Rachel Cusk Quotes

I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.

Rachel Cusk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Ideas World Speak I Can Within Only

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

Andrew Thomas

Finding Point Individual System Just

I never cared about money.

Jeanette Winterson

Money Never About Cared

You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'.

John Romero

World You Want Rogue Stealth

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

Stuart Rose

Good Business Innovation Step Wait

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Sting

Best World You Down Still Around

I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment value.

Rodney Crowell

Value Story Think Career Real

It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain.

Mike Birbiglia

Brain Interesting Way Outside Your

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

Jason Alexander

Know Directing Much Movie About

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Joseph Bologna

Stage Film Literal Disbelief Medium

Serving ice cream isn't exactly like serving in state government, but what I learned guides me today.

Doug Ducey

Today Government Me Ice Ice Cream

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

Donald Johanson

Marriage Thought Biology Late Choice

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Debi Mazar

Mother Me Neighbor Vegetables She