Rachel Kushner Quotes
I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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We get educated out of creativity.
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I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
