Karen Traviss Quotes
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.
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We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
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In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
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Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
