Ellen Kushner Quotes
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
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To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
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Every man lives at swordspoint.
