Rachel Kushner Quotes
I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
Rachel Kushner
Quotes to Explore
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac
There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
Barry Ritholtz
When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Haile Gebrselassie
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Victoria Woodhull
I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
Kajol
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie
My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
Hansika Motwani
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
Ralph Bakshi
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
Nathan Fillion
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Vincent Canby