Karen Robards Quotes

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

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• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  

  Jack Vance
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• When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
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  • Die

• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.

  

  J. D. Souther
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• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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• And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

  

  Calista Flockhart
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• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  

  Walter Mosley
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• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
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• In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.

  

  Samantha Mumba
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• I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
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• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

  

  Philip Roth
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• Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it’s precious, too. You can’t just throw it away or let it slip away. You can’t sell it for bread and pottage.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Freedom

• When I started watching matches, it was those of Marseille. After that, it was Lyon. I went to see them all the time in the league or the Champions League with my dad.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
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• I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.

  

  Dave Filoni
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• I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

  

  Karen Robards
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