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

• Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Experience

• I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Old
  • Clothes
  • Lady

• 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

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• 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

• Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

  

  Su-chin Pak
  • Money
  • Power
  • Culture

• I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.'

  

  Max Schmeling
  • Up
  • School
  • Humble

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Question
  • Judge
  • Criminal

• 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