Rachel Kushner Quotes
I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.Rachel Kushner
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
Ike Barinholtz -
I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
Pamela Anderson -
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
Dana Hill -
We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
Narendra Modi -
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
Olivia De Havilland
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
Taylor Swift -
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza -
Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. Wilson -
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
J. R. Smith -
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
Felicity Huffman -
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey -
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Zane Grey -
I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
Yancy Butler -
Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
Hailey Gates
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When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.
David Shields -
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Harry Caray -
I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
Lana Del Rey -
It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
Tony Kushner -
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
Rachel Kushner