Rachel Kushner Quotes
When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.
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I seem to have a bit of a knack for accents; I can pick them up quick enough.
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I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.
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When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
