A Quote by Rachel Kushner

We're all performing for someone. — © Rachel Kushner
We're all performing for someone.

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I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.
I definitely love performing live because there are moments of spontaneity. And as much as you're performing on stage, I feel like the audience is performing, too.
Everyone's got crazy fans! But honestly, the crazy fans are where it's at, because they know all the lyrics to the songs that you're singing, and they're dancing and having a great time. You can really enjoy performing for them, even more than you can enjoy performing for someone that's not crazy.
You can tell when someone is reading the lines of a song or performing it.
I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.
Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.
I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.
Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.
Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.
I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
Any time you get to see a bunch of drag queens performing music and performing songs and being idiots, I'm in.
In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.
Performing in each city is a different experience. But somehow, New York is unique. It is like performing in the entertainment capital of the world.
I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing, it's not really... You're not performing like a guitar player or a singer is performing, you know what I mean? So it's weird to be in the same type setup as one of those. 'Cause I'm not really doing much, you know, like technically it's not that hard.
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