Ellen Datlow Quotes
I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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We don't quite have the same comic book culture as America, but I would watch Spider-Man cartoons and X-Men cartoons and watch Bond as much as anyone on the planet.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
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If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist.
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I think, like a lot of people on this issue, I have really changed my thinking here to, ‘I don’t ever want to stand in front of anybody’s happiness.’ That’s not my job, okay? If that word – ‘marriage’ – is really, really that important to you, I can go with it.
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When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.
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Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.
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Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
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Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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But I'm alone on my throne All these riches
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I love taking chances.
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I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'
