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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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
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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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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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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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Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. They're just goin' all the time.
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I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.
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A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.
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I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
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She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.
