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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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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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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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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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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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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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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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
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I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.
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Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
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Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.
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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.
