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Rachel Kushner Quotes

I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1968

Topics

Love Write Because About Them Ellis

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

World Care Poverty Protection Social

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

Teacher Doctor Lawyer Someone Help

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

Melissa McCarthy

Women Great Strong Think Down Just

The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your opportunity. So you don't want to have that.

Opportunity Time You Want Edgy Get

When became citizens, we took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and laws and bear faith and allegiance to the same. When I became a judge last year, I took the very same oath administered by Justice O'Conner. Rather amazingly, I'm now in the position to administer that oath to others who themselves are becoming citizens.

Faith Justice Support Judge Year

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

Impossible Think Rules Big Because

I have a constituency with 52,000 people and a million sheep. I was in one village where a local kid was run over by a tractor. They took him to Carlisle, but they couldn't be bothered to wait at the hospital. So they put him in a darkened room for two weeks, then said he was fine. But I'm not so sure he was.

People Wait Sheep Village Said Run

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

Me Want Gone Being Keep Even

I love dancing; my kids love to dance. I think it's just another way for children to learn they can be themselves.

Love Children Dance Think Learn Way

When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.

Joseph P. Bradley

Progress Man Slavery Citizen Special

I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job.

Life Freedom Job Miami Find Living

Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.

Alija Izetbegovic

Thinking Living Islam Way Rather

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