Ellen Kushner Quotes
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.
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I'm a work in progress.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.
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Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
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When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we escape our self-conscious selves.
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The incentives that people need to work and to find meaning in their lives should be found beyond material wealth and power.
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
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If someone had told us in 1945 that in our lifetime religious wars would rage on virtually every continent, that thousands of children would once again be dying of starvation, we would not have believed it. Or that racism and fanaticism would flourish once again, we would not have believed it.
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Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
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She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.
