Rachel Kushner Quotes
For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Music is my release.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
