Rachel Kushner Quotes
Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I'm not graceful.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
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You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
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I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.
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I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!'
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I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.