Rachel Kushner Quotes
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Rachel Kushner
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
Sally Hawkins
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
Camille Paglia
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One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.
Nikola Tesla
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ou have to put in the work to be ready for the next opportunity that comes to you … If you do the work, and you’re prepared when the opportunity comes to you, it’s all going to work out fine.
Carrie Ann Inaba
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
Rafael Nadal
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Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.
Dennis Prager
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Rachel Kushner
