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Rachel Cusk Quotes

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Become Little Mothers Sense

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.

Words Language Meaning Trying Rules

I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.

Business Music Time Song Weekend

The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.

Robert Gottlieb

Great Best Small Better Scenery Up

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.

Performance Think Doing Capture Able

I find that with dance - and with the arts in general - because I want to grow in my performance, I have to come face to face with my own personal challenges.

Dance Challenges Performance Face

There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.

Stars History Great Guitar Play Pop

I don't get mad too much.

Mad Too Much Get Much Too

If you want to look right now under Obama who our enemies are, just look at who he is nice to.

You Look Nice Now Want Right

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

Time World Think Musicians Enough

People are carrying around smartphones. They have a video capture device in their pockets twenty-four/seven.

People Capture Pockets Around Device

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

War Better Doing Idiot Responsible

A smile is like an instant facelift and an instant mood lift.

Christie Brinkley

Smile Lift Mood Like Instant

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