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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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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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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In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.
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For my first big Fashion Week event, the factory wouldn't give me my clothes because I didn't have the $25,000 it cost to make them.
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The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.
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Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
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Richard knew he was fighting for his life, and he was terribly happy.
