Rachel Kushner Quotes
I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.Rachel Kushner
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh -
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller -
For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
Natalia Tena -
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
Patrice Leconte -
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
Damien Chazelle -
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman -
My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
Octavia Spencer -
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
Ian Frazier -
One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
Adam Mansbach -
My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
Dana Perino -
We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
Warren Spector
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
Ian Somerhalder -
I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
Tea Obreht -
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters -
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
Zadie Smith -
My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
Kate McKinnon -
I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
Aage Bohr
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Once in a while, I need to go out of my way to do different films, to exploit all commercial angles to cater to the masses.
Akkineni Nagarjuna -
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Marianne Williamson -
Only we were in The Cranberries. Only we know what it was like being in that crazy whirlwind of fame. We have children and spouses and lives, but there is only one Cranberries.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries -
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
John Darnielle -
After all is said and done, a life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
Rachel Kushner