Daniel Keys Moran Quotes
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
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I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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Once you're on, nobody can say, 'Cut it.' You're out there on your own, and there's always that thrill of a real live audience.
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I don't read many young adult books.
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It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
