Rachel Kushner Quotes
When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.
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If there is a course that is quant-oriented, you need to focus on that, but if it is a course that is more general management-oriented, do you not need entrance examinations which are more all round?
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
