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Rachel Kushner Quotes

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1968

Topics

Life Work Real Fiction Real Life

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

People Meetings Unexpected You Never

In a professional service environment, you often work on one engagement or deal after another, with one ending before the next begins.

Work Service Ending Environment You

I can't speak for other people, but I still hate losing. When I did lose, I found it easier to yell than to cry. Guys aren't supposed to cry, are they?

Hate Losing People Speak Lose Cry

During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

Angela Duckworth

Service Focus School Sister Homeless

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

Clifford Geertz

People Mind Reading Two People Him

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Heart People You Know Something

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

Future History Better Judge Analysis

I have dreams all the time.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

Think Worthy Days Most

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

Home Power Smart Brain Computers

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

Success Day You Target True Become

I love a good goatee. I'm actually obsessed with goatees. I do like my men smooth, though. I like him to smell really good, so a great cologne is always hot.

Love Good Great Men Smell Hot

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