Rachel Kushner Quotes
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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Translation is harder, believe it or not. You do have to come up with a story, and actually I'm mystified by that process. I don't exactly know how the story just comes, but it does. But in writing a story that you're inventing, versus writing a story that somebody else has made up - there's a world of difference. In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing.
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
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All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
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I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
