Karen Cushman Quotes
Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.
Quotes to Explore
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.
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A million years went by quick.
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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
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Ninety percent of the people who come to see me are my fans.
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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.
