Rachel Kushner Quotes
At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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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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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
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Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
