Ellen Kushner Quotes

Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.

Ellen Kushner

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• In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Work
  • Know
  • Training

• One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Book
  • American
  • Man

• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Sweet

• I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Dad
  • Powerful

• I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • You
  • Friend
  • Better

• Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument.6

  

  Ze Frank
  • Real
  • War
  • Culture

• The Forgetful Vegan: Man that sure was some good pepperoni pi-Oh Fuck!

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Good
  • Vegan

• Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.

  

  Rahul Gandhi

• For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Men
  • Past
  • Faith

• When we started Aventura, I think a lot of - the reason why we became so successful besides, you know, doing good music, was also the fact that it was unique and different and never done.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.

  

  Alek Wek
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • Time

• I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Different

• I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Worry
  • Expectation

• 'GLOW' is the first time I feel like I've been able to have a theatrical experience on the small screen: to really be able to marry the two. And I love it.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Small

• To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Period

• It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Respect
  • Risk

• I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Food

• Movement came out while we were away. The reviews were OK, and though I grew to like it more and more as the years went by, we weren’t especially happy with it at the time. When we listened to the finished product what we heard was the sound of a band whose producer had lost faith. You could hear it. The album had ended up sounding like a Joy Division album with New Order vocals.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Happy
  • Band
  • Movement

• With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Dad
  • Story
  • Communication

• Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Words

• Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Food