Kathe Koja Quotes
My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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A house must be bedded in the landscape. They both have to work together. In and out, every view from a window has to be sensational. Every view into the house must be the same to ensure continuity.
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You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
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Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.
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Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.
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My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
