Kami Garcia Quotes
My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who was I to take on a battle between powers I didn't understand— armed with a runaway cat, a uniquely bad drummer, a pair of garden shears, and an Ovaltine-drinking teen Galileo? To save a girl who didn't want to be saved?
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
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For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
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My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who was I to take on a battle between powers I didn't understand— armed with a runaway cat, a uniquely bad drummer, a pair of garden shears, and an Ovaltine-drinking teen Galileo? To save a girl who didn't want to be saved?
