Ellen Klages Quotes
My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.
 
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	I want to continue to be me and share with people.   
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	If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.   
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	I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.   
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	Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.   
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	Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'   
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	My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.   
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	A well begun is half ended.   
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	I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.   
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	You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.   
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	If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.   
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	If the sun comes up, I have a chance.   
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	Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!   
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	I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.   
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	The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.   
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	'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.   
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	I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.   
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	It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?   
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	In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.   
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	With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.   
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	I and other like-minded members will not vote for the final package when it comes back if it has drilling in the Arctic there.   
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	Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.   
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	The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.   
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	My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					