Rachel Kushner Quotes

Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

Rachel Kushner

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Single
  • Famous

• I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Computers

• I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Age
  • Think
  • Reading

• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Society
  • Health
  • Care

• Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Country
  • Society
  • Gay

• I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Think
  • Three
  • Mexican

• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Think
  • Energy
  • Fast

• If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Look

• I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Think
  • Will
  • Reaction

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Like

• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Think
  • You
  • Outsider

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Society

• New England is demanding newer, cleaner, and more innovative energy sources - energy sources that create jobs here in New England. We should also demand newer, cleaner, and more innovative transmission methods.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Energy
  • New
  • Create

• In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He didn't respond at all, which made me like him even more.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • Me
  • College
  • Crush

• The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Reality
  • Band

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Society
  • Political