Rachel Kushner Quotes
Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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We all walk softly away.We would stay and be the nurse butthere are too many of us and we are too worried to help.It is love that walks awayand yet we have terrible mouthsand soft milk hands.We worry with like.We walk away like love.
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Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.
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I give credit to my team. I have dedicated people from my label, my fans, and people at these companies that believe in me.
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Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
