Rachel Kushner Quotes

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

Rachel Kushner

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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.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Home
  • America
  • Wilderness

• 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.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You
  • Percent
  • Invisible

• I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Power
  • Everyone
  • Equal

• Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Like
  • Angry
  • Two

• 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.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Running
  • Training
  • Year

• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • World
  • Men
  • Silent

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• 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.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Personality

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Night
  • Window
  • Early

• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democrat

• 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.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Feel

• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Force
  • Jazz

• I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Bad
  • Parents
  • Day

• I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

  

  David Chalmers
  • Time

• I'm really just looking for an excuse to get in shape, so if someone could send me a role for a superhero movie, I'll get in shape, then you can just give it to someone else.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Movie
  • Superhero

• Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Single

• First the masters died, now their music is dying, because people only want to listen to pop, rock, and punk.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Ugly