Ellen Kushner Quotes
All the while he's been moving towards her, both stoat to rabbit and moth to flame. And she's staring at him, flame-bright and rabbit-scared, too brave to look away.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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'The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.'
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When I was eleven years old, I basically looked the same as I do now.
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Every day, I pinch myself. It has been an incredible journey.
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I hate bananas so much, it verges on a phobia.
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My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.
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I didn't really plan on fame. I never really factored that part into my life.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the face and lips and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smiled and kept moving.
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All the while he's been moving towards her, both stoat to rabbit and moth to flame. And she's staring at him, flame-bright and rabbit-scared, too brave to look away.
