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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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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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 have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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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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We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. ... How are we going to do it? We're going to do it by having the wealthy pay their fair share and close the corporate loopholes.
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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country - energy and malaise.
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Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!
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The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim.
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You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.
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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.
