Karen Cushman Quotes
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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When I decided to crop what was left of my hair, I thought, 'It's all over. I'm never going to work again: it's basket weaving me for me from now on.' But what actually happens is your casting changes: you suddenly start to get a lot of villains and coppers and soldiers and even the odd sensitive vicar - you become institutionalised.
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We originally proposed to build 60 to 80 rooms.
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It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
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I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.
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I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
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I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.
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I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
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What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
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There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.
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My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
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Mother, they would praise my balls if I hung them high enough.
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My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.
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The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.
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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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In the skies over Kosovo and Serbia as we speak. We know how dangerous their mission is. We wish them Godspeed and certainly a safe return.
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Fathers should make you feel safe.
