Rachel Kushner Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I’m so addicted to it.
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Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
