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.

Ellen Raskin

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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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• 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.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
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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.

  

  Quentin Bryce
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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.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Power
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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.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • People
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• Being a fan of the business for years and wanting to be an actor for years, I knew, if ever the opportunity came for me, I would already know what to expect. I know what comes along with it. The best thing I can do is take it all in and go with the flow.

  

  Quinton Aaron
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• I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Think
  • Space

• Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

  

  Keri Smith
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• If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.

  

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• If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

  

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• If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

  

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• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

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• I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

  

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• My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

  

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  • Childhood
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• I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

  

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  • Images
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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.

  

  Ellen Raskin
  • Childhood
  • Write
  • Images