Rachel Kushner Quotes

Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.

I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.

I have friends who were friends of mine before I did music and they are my friends now, and we share life experiences. It's no fun unless you're sharing with people, looking out for them as they are looking out for you.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun.

Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

I'm really close with Dave Coulier and his wife Melissa. My family and I go over there for barbeques, for dinners, Super Bowl parties.

Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family.

My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.

Any time I can come to L.A., because I live in New York... when I go to L.A., it really is about the people, having reunions and seeing my friends I don't see enough.

No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.

I love hanging out with my friends, because I have the best group of friends ever.

My main interest is in cultivating my company.

I love doing things quietly. I love being with friends. I love my parents and my brother Guglielmo. They are essentials to me.

I'm just a regular guy. I have a lot of friends and love to spend my time with them.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

I like to relax. Spend it with people that I've grown up with, or people that I care about, and just relax, sit around doing nothing or sitting on a beach.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

I'm a pretty boring person. I have a dog that I love, and friends that I love, and a family that I love. I'm just trying to spend as much time with them as I can.

Friends make life a lot more fun.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

I used to be the kind of person who needed to have a lot of people around. That's where I found my serenity.