Rachel Kushner Quotes

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

Rachel Kushner

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MeWorldYouWantLeapSee

I never got a degree; I just started writing.

Joe R. Lansdale

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There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.

Jeff Raikes

GoodCommunityGreatGood ThingsYou

I first started doing hidden-camera segments on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.' He was the coolest guy in the world to work for because he understands the creative process, and he had total trust. And he just let me make up whatever I wanted; I experimented and tried and played. We had a lot of fun over there.

Michael Carbonaro

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Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

Michelle Shocked

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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

Jonathan Ive

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I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.

Dennis Prager

HealthBelieveNameAmericanAmerica

I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.

Dexter Darden

LoveAgeMeMomYoungCook

Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.

Dorothy Hamill

WinterBrotherMomColdWalkingIce

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Colin Powell

WrongRightAlwaysCommanderField

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

Suzy Bogguss

PastIdeasTryingAttentionSpecial

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

Sean Combs

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