Rachel Kushner Quotes
I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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South Central is just who I am.
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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.
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Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.
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That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.
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I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
