Karen Cushman Quotes
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.
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Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
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I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
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In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
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When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.
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It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
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But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.
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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
