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Rachel Kushner

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ROBERT GOTTLIEB when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
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OM PURI In the beginning the Universe was created.
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GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is somet...
SHARON CREECH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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BRENT WEEKS I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
BEBE REXHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. The game is meant to be fun.
JACK NICKLAUS I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas abou...
YANN MARTEL Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves abo...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I think the secret to Rachel is she doesn't know who anybody is. She doesn't know other people are f...
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JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them ...
MITCH ALBOM It's good to have a foothold in reality, a base somewhere that's always been a base. Sharman...
SEAN BIGGERSTAFF Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true...
JOHN M. FORD I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, s...
AMBER BENSON Go home, Rachel. She so likes to to be there for his return. Zachariah is coming, Zachariah is co...
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MAGGIE HASSAN One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.
PHIL KLAY It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
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ASAP ROCKY The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
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SARAH KEDDAR Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, eve...
WALTER GILBERT While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excit...
HAKAN NESSER I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't w...
MAYA ANGELOU The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it...
BEN OKRI One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It'...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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LOU REED I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
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ALEXANDRA CHANDO The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'
LIL WAYNE Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
NATALIE MORALES What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
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JANICE KRUGER It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
ETHAN CANIN Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dati...
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PIPPA MIDDLETON People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about th...
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RACHEL WEISZ You have your real life and then you have your work.
RACHEL WEISZ I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite ...
RACHEL WEISZ It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same ...
RACHEL WEISZ My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive aro...
RACHEL WEISZ Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; wh...
RACHEL WEISZ There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in peop...
RACHEL WEISZ The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
RACHEL WEISZ As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've ne...
RACHEL WEISZ I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in t...
RACHEL WEISZ I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
RACHEL WEISZ You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say th...
RACHEL WEISZ People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one t...
RACHEL WEISZ I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
RACHEL WEISZ Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
RACHEL WARD I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually...
RACHEL WARD I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ...
RACHEL WARD When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
RACHEL WARD All anything takes, really, is confidence.
RACHEL WARD There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not li...
RACHEL WARD Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and ch...
RACHEL WARD You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fan...
RACHEL WARD I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque po...
RACHEL WARD It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ...
RACHEL TUCKER When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as ...
RACHEL TUCKER 'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the R...
RACHEL TUCKER We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens bla...
RACHEL TUCKER