Rachel Kushner Quotes
I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.
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I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.
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In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of have to just - sometimes you just say yes to people, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure," and then you just write the one you want to write.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
