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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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
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He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.
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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.
