Rachel Kushner Quotes
Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I think that I get bored easily with things.
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Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
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My life - it's a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'
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Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.
