Ellen Kushner Quotes
I studied you until I knew you, or at least, the public parts of you: your learning, your passion, the way your voice slows down when you answer a question. I studied your hands, and wondered how they'd touch me; your hair, and how it would smell. I wondered about that and about the rest of you I could not see. I wanted to know you. And I wanted you to know me. I wanted you to see me.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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Pain is never permanent.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
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I'm learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don't have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.
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Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.
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I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
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Whenever people are trying to give you money, and you're like, 'No! Don't,' you have to stop and consider, what am I saying no to?
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I studied you until I knew you, or at least, the public parts of you: your learning, your passion, the way your voice slows down when you answer a question. I studied your hands, and wondered how they'd touch me; your hair, and how it would smell. I wondered about that and about the rest of you I could not see. I wanted to know you. And I wanted you to know me. I wanted you to see me.
