Kami Garcia Quotes

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

Kami Garcia

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• There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

  

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• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

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• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

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• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  

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• Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

  

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• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

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• How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  

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• I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.

  

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• I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.

  

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• As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.

  

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• I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

  

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• When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

  

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• I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

  

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  • Alone
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• There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

  

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• You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

  

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• I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'

  

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• Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.

  

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• I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

  

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• As an athlete, you really see a lot of the Instagram paradigm. Where it's just like, 'Me! Me! Me!' When you realize you can 'Give, Give, Give,' it's very interesting, and it's good.

  

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• I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

  

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• It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.

  

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• I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.

  

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• Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Time
  • Real
  • Knowing