Rachel Kushner Quotes
I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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People trash talk me.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
