Karen Traviss Quotes
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful idiots are always asking, "What's in it for me"?
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I'm creating my own oasis in my house. I've got a lot of calming, soothing things around my house. The way it's set up, it's supposed to just be a breath of fresh air. I can find solace in painting and writing. I honestly love what I do, so it's not too much for me. Creating is something I've always been able to do, whether it's making little cartoons or writing a full-length script. It's something I really, really enjoy. I'm trying to make the best of what I've been given.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
