Rachel Kushner Quotes
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
