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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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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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.
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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.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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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.
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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.
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I'm really, really emotional.
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I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
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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.
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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.
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When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.
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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.
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I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.
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We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.
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Just seeing people appreciate what you do, come out and support it, and sing the songs back, there's not a better feeling in the world.
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It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.
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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.
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It was not for Halliday to judge another's personal relationships: everyone in the city was strange, if you looked deeply enough.
