Rachel Cusk Quotes

Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

Rachel Cusk

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SocietyBlackThinkComedyYouWant

New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food.

Jeremy Lin

FoodCultureNew YorkCityMedia

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

SpaceUniverseSpecialUnderstandUs

On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing.

St. Lucia

SingingShyFirstOutRecording

Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.

Stanley A. McChrystal

SuccessPersistenceSchoolGiving

In my case, the business chose me.

Ronald Meyer

BusinessMeCaseChose

If you do something really well, the entire world beats a path to your door. The number three, number five, number 400 player gets nothing. It's almost a winner take all.

Lloyd Blankfein

PathDoorWorldWinnerYouThree

You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.

Jon Voight

WorkOpportunityPeopleStartYou

I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

Diane Sawyer

LoveCuriousPeopleLunchThinkAsk

I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.

Christopher Moore

ThinkYouMoreAlphaOutSuccessful

Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me.

Cornelia Parker

WorkMeThinkingDoingMagicI Can

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

Ryan Eggold

ThinkCameraMoreCraftAlways

A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed.

Martha Beck

ServiceGoGroupPatientIndividual

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