Ellen Kushner Quotes
In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible. There he lay, as near as comfort, as far as the other side of death, silent and far away in sleep.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
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It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.
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It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.
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But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
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I can't dance at all by myself.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible. There he lay, as near as comfort, as far as the other side of death, silent and far away in sleep.
