Rachel Cusk Quotes

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

Rachel Cusk

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ServiceBodySometimesAbuseLived

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

Joanna Scott

BetterLiteratureCelebrationImagine

I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.

Jennifer Nettles

DogThinkingRememberNowResting

What television gets to do, and there's a reason why 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' works as well as it does, is that it deals with the relationships. It deals with the very small, interpersonal ways that people both love and hate each other.

Jeffrey Bell

LoveHatePeopleSmallTelevision

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

Stephen Hopkins

DoneMoviesSoundAlwaysFreakBeen

I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.

Tom Brokaw

WorkEducationBeginningManMe

People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hire me with long hair - that they don't have imaginations and can't picture me looking normal. People literally have conference calls about my head when I'm not around. I mean, obviously I would cut my hair for an amazing part.

Rory Culkin

WorkPeopleAmazingMeHairLooking

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

Brian Eno

MusicPeopleThinkYouNiceThings

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

Aries Spears

ComedyMichael JordanRangeFullHe

I feel really humbled because I decided to go on Twitter, and all of my fans on Twitter say one thing consistently every single day, and that is, 'When are you coming back in movies?' I didn't even think people missed me that much.

Preity Zinta

DayPeopleMeThinkFeelYou

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.

Tyler Florence

HomeImpactTransportationNeed

I'm the guy that is always in shape.

Tim Kennedy

AlwaysShapeGuy

We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid it ourselves.

Rick Tumlinson

LifeSearchLearnGoUnderstand

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