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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Fall
  • Battle

• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• 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.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Music
  • Projects

• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Father
  • Education
  • Poor

• 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.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Effort

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Depend

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Movies

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Things

• The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Work
  • Value
  • Independent

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Music
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Born
  • Firsts
  • Stills

• I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Modesty
  • Questioning

• ...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Write
  • Discover
  • Lady

• The energy and generosity of spirit of the people I meet everywhere I perform is what inspires me to make music and through the music, we share a bond even if we may never have met. As long as there is a single person who may find something they are looking for or a feeling they need in my music, I will continue to write for that person.

  

  Emma Hewitt
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Spirit

• I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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