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 feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
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.'
Rachel Cusk -
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.
Laura Dern -
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
Magdalena Neuner -
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
Candice Swanepoel
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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.
Zoe McLellan -
Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
Rachael Harris -
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.
Becky G -
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
Calvin Klein -
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.
Natalie Gulbis
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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.
Ram Charan -
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.
Safra A. Catz -
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.
Patrick Kane -
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.
Rami Malek -
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Yves Saint Laurent -
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Mitch Albom -
The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
Barbara Demick -
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
Matthew Tobin Anderson -
I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
Viggo Mortensen -
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.
Rachel Kushner