Ellen Kushner Quotes
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.
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That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.
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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
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If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.
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I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.
