Rachel Kushner Quotes
I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.Rachel Kushner
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
Yoko Ono -
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti -
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba -
Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo -
Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
Queen Latifah
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
Imran Amed -
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
Carice van Houten -
I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
Ice Cube -
Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
Venus Williams -
You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
Oscar Isaac
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
Abel Ferrara -
I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
Adam Carolla -
I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
Orson Welles -
I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
Eden Sher -
Daring is not safe against daring men.
Ovid -
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
Taylor Negron
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. Wilson -
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
Ralph Vaughan Williams -
I'm trying to build a brand. I'm not just doing one-off projects.
Brandon T. Jackson -
Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.
David Wenham -
Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients.
Marcus Samuelsson -
I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
Rachel Kushner