Kami Garcia Quotes
Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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I like things simple.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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We in the West should stand by our core principles.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.
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Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read
