Rachel Kushner Quotes
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
Rachel Kushner
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
Daniel Bryan
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
Ed Westwick
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Sam Donaldson
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
Mahesh Bhupathi
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
Tablo
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
Yishan Wong
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
C. Everett Koop
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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A well begun is half ended.
A. C. Benson
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Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. And it has been proven as much of an illusion in Stalinist Russia as it proven an illusion in pre-Hitler Germany. Communism in anything but name was abandoned in Russia when the Five-Year Plan was substituted for the New Economic Policy (NEP) after Lenin’s death.
Peter Drucker
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It's been amazing to play a character that's known by so many people, especially because everyone knows at least something about Peter Pan.
Levi Miller
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One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it, is contraception. I came across someone who articulated very clearly that one of the things which makes our approach to Buddhist practice in regards to sex different these days than it was in Buddhist times, is the simple existence of reliable contraception, which is a no brainer but I missed really addressing it in the book.
Brad Warner
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When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.
Casey Affleck
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
Rachel Kushner
