Rachel Kushner Quotes

I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.

Rachel Kushner

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WomanReadingThinkTryingYoung

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

Joan D. Vinge

SnowDayPastQueenWritingPresent

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

Joan Rivers

LifeGodParentsMeThank GodSee

There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.

Jerry Oppenheimer

FamilyPerceptionBlackSheepParis

There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.

John Grant

AngerQueenMePoliticalDenmark

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Maya Angelou

WomenMenBlackLonelyWhiteNever

Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.

Robert Carlyle

ChildCityDoubtFriendlyVancouver

It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

Ron Davies

HealthPurposePerformanceCareMore

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.

Louise Slaughter

ChildrenTimeWorldBadWrongKnow

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

Craig L. Thomas

DoorFeetHandDeadTwoYears

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Clint Eastwood

StoryYouValuesKnowSpecialNever

For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line.

Phyllis Smith

CharacterTruthMeFindWantLine

I'm just an innocent guy with a dirty mouth, I guess.

Shane Dawson

MouthDirtyInnocentGuyJustGuess

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