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.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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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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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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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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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)
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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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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.
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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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Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.
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In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.
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May my living be grace to those behind me.
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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.
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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.
