Rachel Kushner Quotes

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

Rachel Kushner

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I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Joanna Trollope

MeYouPerfectIntellectualStylist

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

John Berger

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It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.

Anjelica Huston

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For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

CultureNew YorkPeopleNewLondon

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

Tracy Chapman

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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Roald Dahl

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When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.

Masaharu Morimoto

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My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

Mindy Kaling

LifeRelationshipMomMy LifeSingle

I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking maybe I'd sort of ruin their reputations with their musical public. They not knowing that I had been singing all of my life. In churches, etc. I had one of the finest All Boys Quartets that ever walked the streets of New Orleans.

Louis Armstrong

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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Lord Byron

FreedomPeopleAmericaModeration

I still don't find myself a very confident person about my looks or my body.

Cobie Smulders

MyselfConfidentBodyFindPerson

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Alice Walker

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