Ellen Kushner Quotes
Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
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I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
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Reticulocytes are terminally differentiating red blood cells that do not contain lysosome. Therefore, it was postulated that the degradation of hemoglobin in these cells is mediated by a non-lysosomal machinery.
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I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.
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I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.
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Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.
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With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.
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Since Switzerland has nothing else to identify it…and since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
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The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the Night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
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The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.
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It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing.
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You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.
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Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.
