Rachel Kushner Quotes
L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.
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I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.
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In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.
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I would like to be out there every day and be that one steady guy that everybody can lean on.
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
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L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.
