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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It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.
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I've always wanted to be an action figure.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.
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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
