Kami Garcia Quotes
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give me your attention. In exchange, I'll give you something else.' The cash register is not ringing. It's not denominated in dollars or cents or euros, but it is a form of sales in a way. It is an exchange.
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Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
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I have a love factor with the minorities.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
