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
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
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 -
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 -
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Sam Donaldson -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
Harlan Coben
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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.
Patrick Kane -
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Gary Zukav -
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
Felipe VI of Spain -
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
Rain -
A well begun is half ended.
A. C. Benson
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Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people to make money on the things that they produce. In news, they've created Apple News, and they've tried to steer people towards information.
Franklin Foer -
I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.
Fabiano Anthony Forte -
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
Rachel Kushner