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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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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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
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To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.
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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
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Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
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The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
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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.
