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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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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Audiences don't come to theatres going by reviews. Even if a film is rated low, the collections won't get affected.
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The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement.
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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.
