Ellen Raskin Quotes
I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.
Quotes to Explore
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.
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It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off.
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He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
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You know if you're in Rome, live in the Roman way. I grew up there, I was born there, and so I should follow its guidelines, live like a Korean. And I really love Korea. I grew up listening to Korean music, and was able to get to where I am because of it.
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On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.
