"I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had."

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Source : Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline”, p.39, Random House

Rachel Cusk

#Ocean Quotes #Moving Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. March 1, 2006.
“A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.”
“Ambition beats genius 99% of the time”
“Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.”
“Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.”

Source : "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.
“There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.”
“Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.”
“Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'”

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