Ellen Kushner Quotes

Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.

Ellen Kushner

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• I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

  

  Inara George
  • Up
  • Community
  • Mountains

• I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Think
  • Actually
  • Radical

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Nobody
  • Court

• Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Forever

• Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mind
  • Same
  • Spring

• It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Reality
  • Gay
  • Leader

• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Crazy

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Guy
  • Interesting
  • Singing

• To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Long
  • Faith

• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Win
  • Victory

• It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Team
  • Group
  • Celebrate

• I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Discipline

• Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Decision
  • Feedback

• I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Read
  • Buy
  • Comics

• I've always had problems with guys!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Always
  • Problems
  • Had

• I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Beauty
  • Sorry
  • Fall In Love

• I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

  

  Steve Finley
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Stills

• Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Play
  • Woman
  • Fight