Rachel Kushner Quotes
From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
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Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.
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Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.
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There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
