Rachel Kushner Quotes
I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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I won't join another band again.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
