Ellen Kushner Quotes
A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.Ellen Kushner
Quotes to Explore
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes -
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman -
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
Ulrich Beck -
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
Vicky McClure
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells -
Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
Jack Keane -
As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
Quavo Migos -
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
Natasha Trethewey -
The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
Orson Pratt -
At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
Hailey Gates
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
Lael Brainard -
I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
Tea Leoni -
So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
Ice T -
A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
Frances Burney -
I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity.
Burnie Burns -
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.
Douglas Rushkoff
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It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit!
Pablo Picasso -
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
Erwin Schrodinger -
Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
Dane Cook -
A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.
Ellen Kushner