Kami Garcia Quotes
She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'
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Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.
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I'd like to make a shout out...SHOUT OUT!
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I want to appeal to everyone. Because I'm not saying I'm the best, but we the best.
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Example is not the main thing. It is the only thing. That is, if the one giving the example is not saying to himself, 'Behold I am giving an example.' That spoils it. Anyone thinking of the example he will give to others has lost his simplicity. Only as a man has simplicity can his example influence others.
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I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
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She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.
