Rachel Kushner Quotes
The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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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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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.
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With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'
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It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
