Rachel Kushner Quotes
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I love India.
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... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.
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That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management, producers, engineers. I don't ever call people with, "Hi! How are you?" I say, "How are you? Do you have that 16/30 ready? When do you want me to come into the studio?" That's what I do.
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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.
