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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There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.
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I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
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Talkers expand like bread dough.
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I don't have to pitch movies. I'm no good at it!
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If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.
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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.'
