"Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life."

-- Rachel Cusk

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“Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.”

Source : Theodore Dwight Weld (2014). “American Slavery As It Was - The Background Of Twelve Years A Slave”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag
“You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.”
“I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.”
“A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.”
“I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.”
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.”
“I lived in Minnesota in a small town.”

Source : "Riding Along with Steve Zahn". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 14, 2009.
“Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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