Ellen Kushner Quotes

It was not for Halliday to judge another's personal relationships: everyone in the city was strange, if you looked deeply enough.

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• I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Night
  • Understand

• What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Self

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Afrikaans

• The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Business
  • Way
  • Write

• We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Any
  • Reggae
  • Websites

• Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Time
  • Church
  • Myself

• I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Choice

• I'm really, really emotional.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Emotional
  • Really

• Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. (XIV, Translated by W. H. S. Jones. LCL 148, Pages 296-297)

  

  Hippocrates

• I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Life
  • Important

• What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • People

• It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Light

• If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Baseball

• When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Character

• If you watch home videos, at 4 years old, I was doing nothing but being the entertainer. Singing 'Boot Scootin' Boogie' in the living room. Then, I guess, just by the grace of God I started writing songs, and somebody happened to like them.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • God
  • Writing
  • Home

• From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

  

  Lee Hall
  • Work
  • Theatre
  • Profound

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • World
  • Control
  • Decision

• New York City has an integration problem.

  

  Laura Moser
  • City
  • Problem
  • New York

• A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

  

  Jonathan Davis
  • People
  • Wish
  • Depression

• Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee—and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela—Raphael’s as well. Then she put down the carafe.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Feeling
  • Waiting

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• It was not for Halliday to judge another's personal relationships: everyone in the city was strange, if you looked deeply enough.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Judge
  • Strange
  • Relationships