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 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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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.
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Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.
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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.
