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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When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And there's then a kind of self-consciousness about telling a story in which you suffered.
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I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but given my job, I need to have an understanding of what's on TV.
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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
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Likewise, for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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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.
