Rachel Kushner Quotes
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.
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I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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And it's the same when there's a war on: it's the men who go to fightWomen and children are civilians, when they're killed it's not rightMen kill men in uniform, its the way war goesWhen they run they're cowards, when they stay they are heroes.
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Fury made a name for himself in America, and as a fighter, you have to establish yourself there, first and foremost, to be known worldwide.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
