Ellen Kushner Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
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A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
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I am always embarrassed and a little awkward about receiving this sort of attention.
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No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.
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It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.
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Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
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The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
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I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.
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Richard knew he was fighting for his life, and he was terribly happy.
