Kristine Kathryn Rusch Quotes
As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.
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When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
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And doomed to death, though fated not to die.
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
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As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.
