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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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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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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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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It was a nice win for us, a game that we shot the ball well. They just kept coming back and found a way to get back in the game with various plays. It was a great game to watch as a fan.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely. I think this is the area where writers need to place ourselves: from a position of absolute modernity and contemporaneity, creating a culture of objects which cinema cannot.
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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.
