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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I need a release from whatever I'm writing.
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It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.
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I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.
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Let our law-givers then make haste before it is too late to set apart this surpassingly glorious region for the recreation and well-being of humanity, and all the world will rise up and call them blessed.
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Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'
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Richard knew he was fighting for his life, and he was terribly happy.
