Rachel Kushner Quotes
It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.Rachel Kushner
Quotes to Explore
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias -
In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
Randy Neugebauer -
For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
Camilla Belle -
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
Adam Gopnik
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
Dana Brunetti -
I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
Zoe McLellan -
I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
Vanessa Carlton -
Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
Kate Bush -
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
Larry Harvey -
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
Olivia Colman
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Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom -
I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
Gary Glitter -
I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
Dan Devine -
I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
Vanessa Marcil
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I was trying to explain to myself why I was so happy. I hadn't ever felt this happy. I finally understood something about life and its inexplicable logic. I'd wanted to be certain of everything, and life was never going to give me any certitude. I thought of Fito, who always lived in hope when life had offered him no hope. Certitude was a luxury he had never been able to afford. All he'd ever had was a heart incapable of despair.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.
Tony Evans -
It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.
Count Basie -
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.
Elijah Muhammad -
It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
Rachel Kushner