Rachel Kushner Quotes
I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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I want to dress well. I want to look good.
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Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
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I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
