Rachel Kushner Quotes
The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I have always loathed working out.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.
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Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.
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Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.
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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
