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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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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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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The winners shouldn't necessarily win, and the losers shouldn't necessarily lose.
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We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
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Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.
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The way I view drama is life with the boring bits taken out.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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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.
