Ash Koosha (Ashkan Kooshanejad) Quotes

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

Ash Koosha

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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.

Pat Buchanan
- War
- Powerful
- Cold
I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

Sir Isaac Brock KB
- Like
- Careers
- Novel
My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

Viktor Vekselberg
- People
- Parents
- Small
That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

Rachel True
- People
- Time
- Amazing
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

Barry McGee
- School
- Art
- Kids
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Calvin Trillin
- Writing
- Place
- Might