Rachel Kushner Quotes
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of 'virtue' is that straightness of back.
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We're a pretty strong bunch, and we have pretty lofty goals. For us, the manager is very important in a lot of ways, but also, we have a job to do, and that's to go out and win.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away.
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The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.