Rachel Kushner Quotes
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.
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With all the stuff that's going on in the world - after I watch the news, read the news, and listen to my podcasts, at the end of the day, am I really going to watch an episode of murder and time travel?
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
