Kami Garcia Quotes
Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
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Love? he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.
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There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things happen, they almost seem to happen on a Shakespearian stage with the audience so close they can become actors too. This is partly what Joseph Brodsky meant when he wrote that small countries have big politics.
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Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them
