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Rachel Cusk Quotes

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

Rachel Cusk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good I Am Influence Enough Bad Skin

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

John Carmack

Best Random Win Game Behavior Worst

Having made all the decisions, I think a wedding day is a day when you want to forget what you are wearing and be in the moment.

Jenny Packham

Moment Day Think Decisions Wedding

There have been times when we've been playing, and people who were sick were totally healed.

Andrae Crouch

People Sick Playing Been Who Healed

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

Andre Holland

Mother Woman Me Small Find Kind

I have a couple of thick files about things that have gone wrong between people; I ought to write about them in the manner of a thriller. It would finally convince me that I was a real writer.

Amitava Kumar

People Me Wrong Write Real Gone

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.

Shiv Khera

Courage Children Parents Say Scared

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

Rod Steiger

Go Understand Try Come Between

I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I'm challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don't tell you how to get there and I don't show you what to do, though I'll ask leading questions.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Mistake Questions Environment You

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

Mitt Romney

Decision American Risk High Pass

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

Jay Inslee

Beautiful Earth System Driven Still

In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.

Deepak Chopra

Time Moments Stop Will Awareness

I think what's great about your community is that it's different than anyone else's. Look around. What do you want to change? What needs to be built, or what's valuable and needs to be maintained? Is it the people? Local animals? Your parks or gardens? Hospitals?

Debby Ryan

Change Community Great People Think