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.
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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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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.